PPP DHCP client

[Eric Helm]

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