Re: (PM) PM3 & DHCP

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:56:45 -0700 (MST)

All the Pm3 does is take DHCP packets and forward them to a DHCP server
you specify. In order to communicate with the customer's tcp/ip stack to
talk DHCP doesn't it need an ip address already for PPP?

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jukka Pakkanen wrote:

> > >
> > > I agree, the idea of dhcp is just that. And because the
> > > client already has dhcp server set up, why should
> > > they also use PM3 assigned addresses or RADIUS...?
> >
> > Because it works. I cant speak first hand, but Ive heard that DHCP doesnt
> > alwayws work right.
>
> I think we are talking about different things here...
>
> We have a customer who uses DHCP to assign IP
> addresses to the LAN. Now that they have PM3 for
> RAS, they of course want to use the same IP pool
> instead of setting up another pool for them.
>
> Why wouldn't DHCP work?? I think it's pretty well tested and used
> service... Another thing is if PM3 supports it, and that's what I'd
> like to know.

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