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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: RE: Explorer, Netscape, Win31, Arachne etc (#2)
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:20:45 +0100
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Joe wrote:
>LSPPP supports BOOTP (as does DOSPPP/EPPPD, BTW), which is
>required incidentally, to automatically obtain those host IP addresses.

Actually the BOOTP support doesn't give that ability. The BOOTP support
only fakes as a BOOTP/DHCP *answer* when a program on that machine asks. I
don't know how LSPPP has fixed this "automagically" getting of DNS
adress(es) since I've never even got it to work in Win9x ;-)
//Bernie

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