Subject: IP Products

From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:24:17 -0500 (EST)

I figure that there are so many folks out there using Pine with so many 
different configurations that one of you will be able to answer a 
question aobut IP products.

We are currenlty experimenting with a dial-up connection using a 'Shiva 
box'.  When we log in, the Shiva box assigns an IP address for that session.

We are using an MS TCP/IP product, which requires that the user update the
IP address each time we log in to match the IP address assigned by the
Shiva box. 

Does anyone know of an IP product that will recognize and use the 
Shiva-assigned address automagically?

TIA,
Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

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From: "Michael C. Newell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 16:33:40 -0500 (EST)

> Shiva-assigned address automagically?

Does the MS product allow you to set the IP address to 0.0.0.0 (or some other
mangy value) and get it's information via BOOTP?  We do that with Chameleon,
SuperTCP (SuperTCP has to be upgraded to at least V3.5 for this to work),
InterSLIP, MacPPP, and VersaTerm SLIP (the latter 3 for Mac systems) dialing
up through Annex systems and it works great.  I believe Trumpet also supports
this... 

Of course, that assumes the Shiva responds properly to BOOTP requests...

Thanks,

Mike

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