🚀 go-pugleaf

Demon tech support reckon it is possible via Windoze, if you change the
connectoid to read "server assigned IP address" in the server types. So I
guess it should be possilbe as well via Linux...

hmm!


Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:390890CE.A8F3240D@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk...

>
> Demon give you a fixed IP, i.e. their PPP server always dishes out the
> same one when you sign on as the same user. So you tell pppd to get the
> IP dynamically, which is correct - and Demon always gives you the same
> one, which is also correct. Most people, including me, see this as a
> positive advantage of using Demon, who are the only ISP I am aware of
> who do this. Most do not have enough IP addresses to go round.
>
> What is it you do not like about your address?
>
> If you really like your address changing, use another ISP and it will.
>
> Ipcp-accept-local isn't required in most cases, you just don't specify a
> local IP address and it accepts the one from the server. Sometimes you
> need "noipdefault" but I have never seen this with an ISP, only a server
> at work with a possibly dubious configuration.
>
> Or am I missing something fundamental here?
>
> Regards, Ian