Re: Why does dynamic addressing not always work?

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:35:17 -0600 (MDT)

Lo and behold, Philip Hammersley once said:
> The message with the assigned IP address looks like this:
>
> PPP session from (193.186.161.43) to 193.186.161.xxx beginning....
>
> Excerpt from LOGIN.CMD:
>
[ no excerpt given ]

We do something similar, except instead of to address strings, we
just wait for the string right before the assigned address.. ours is a
bit different format (it says "your ip address is 205.164.111.xxx"), but
the same thing applies.. e.g.

input 30 ") to "
address 30

-Dave Andersen

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