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Added a note about dealing with dynamic IP address assignment from

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service providers.
Submitted by:	Robert Watson   rwatson@sidwell.edu
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John Fieber 1995-08-19 22:16:06 +00:00
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<!-- $Id:$ -->
<!-- $Id: userppp.sgml,v 1.1 1995/07/29 13:08:02 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect>Setting up user PPP<label id="userppp">
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If your provider allocates you a static IP address then use this in place
of 10.0.0.1.
<!-- XXX --> <em>(* What should they do if they are
allocated an IP address dynamically?)</em>
<!-- XXX <em>(* What should they do if they are
allocated an IP address dynamically?)</em> -->
<sect2>Create the /etc/resolv.conf file
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may or may not want to do this, depending on how many people have access
to your ppp system.
<sect1>* PPP and Dynamic IP configuration
<sect1>PPP and Dynamic IP configuration
<!-- XXX
<p>* Don't have a clue how to do this. Could someone who does
submit something to go in here?
-->
<!-- XXX -->
<p>If you service provider does not assign static IP numbers,
<tt>ppp</tt> can be configured to negotiate the local address. This is
done by specifying 0 as the local IP address:
<tscreen><verb>
set ifaddr 0 0
</verb></tscreen>
See the <tt>ppp(8)</tt> manual page for more detailed information.
<sect1>Final system configuration