Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/13/17:47:34
Are you sure it "just fakes" it???
It _should_ provide the _real_ host & DNS IP addresses - at least,
it does for me! <g> Also, have a look in the "IP-UP.BAT" file it
creates - this should have two lines like :
set dns1=123.124.125.126
set dns2=234.235.236.237
So, for me at least, it _does_ detect the actual IP addresses. Any
application (eg. Arachne) requiring this information has two options :
1. Execute IP-UP.BAT and read the environment variables it sets.
2. AFAIK, it can also get the info. via BOOTP.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernie [SMTP:bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se]
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2001 8:21
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: RE: Explorer, Netscape, Win31, Arachne etc (#2)
>
> 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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