PPP DHCP client
Eric Helm
helmwork at ruraltel.net
Wed Feb 28 13:40:57 UTC 2007
Glenn Satchell wrote:
> Sorry won't work. dhcp only knows about specific types of interfaces
> that support the features it needs, and PPP is not one of those.
>
> PPP uses it's own link negotiation protocol to assign IP addresses and
> similar information, so yuou shouldn't need dhcp to get a PPP address.
> If you're using some sort of access server at the other end of the PPP
> link then that canusually be configured to act as a proxy and obtain
> address from a dhcp server and then supply them to the remote end of
> the PPP link. That's what thinks like Windows RAS and Cisco Access
> Servers do.
>
> regards,
> -glenn
>
>
Check out http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/IPCP.htm
/Eric
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