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Peter Scales <peter@sleepy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <x1rkOsAvtxmxEw4S@wookie.demon.co.uk>, John Beardmore
><wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes
>>>Probably not :-)  DHCP is 'Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol' and as
>>>Demon give a fixed IP address, this is likely to do you no good.  You
>>>should have selected 'Server assigned IP address' and given your Demon
>>>IP number there.
>>
>>If you put your demon address here and it gets assigned to your ether
>>net card, won't that be in conflict with the need to assign the demon IP
>>address when setting up the RAS network settings ?
>>

>God knows :-)  This area seems to be a whole can of worms for many
>people.  I run a standalone box so don't have a NIC in my configuration.
>A colleague runs both a NIC and RAS - seems to work for him.  Others
>have said 'disable the TCP/IP binding to the NIC before trying RAS'.
>Maybe you need to enable IP routing to run both?  One day I'll read the
>Resource Kit Networking guide cover to cover and set up a NIC in my box
>and play, then maybe I'll know what I'm talking about :-) but probably
>not.

I run two NT boxes, one has an NIC the other doesn't and they both use
RAS to access Demon.

The box without an NIC has no IP address in the TCP/IP config menu,
only the DNS server settings are filled in as per the FAQ. I don't 
remember how I managed it, but it must have been fairly straight 
forward. The whole page is greyed out, as there is no NIC listed in 
the pull down at the top of the page. In fact, my Demon IP address 
is not present anywhere on the system and is negotiated at connect
time, via PPP.

The box with an NIC has the LAN IP address in this menu, the DNS
menu has the same Demon NSs listed as the other box, the 
LMHOSTS file has a few local names on the LAN subnet.

Contrary to the FAQ I did NOT disable any of the TCP/IP bindings
to the NIC. And to my amazement, both the LAN and RAS coexist,
even simultaneously, with different IP addresses. The listeners
listen to both nets, and you can ping hosts on either by name.

I don't have IP routeing enabled, so both nets are effectively 
isolated from each other.

I guess I'm just another NT convert,
Richard.