> Once upon a time Curtis Coleman shaped the electrons to say...
> >Is there a way to have the local ip address of a dial-out location
> >negotiated, instead of being set explicitly?
>
> Unfortunately no, there is not.
>
> You might see if the ISP on the other end can assign you a static IP. If
> they can't set your ether0 IP as the address, take whatever static they
> can give you and make it the local IP for that location.
You can set the dial location for a specified IP or negotiated. It would
have to be a manual or a continuois connection tho for negotiated.
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