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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Explorer, Netscape, Win31, Arachne etc
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:45:23 +1100
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Well, Bernie has already indicated one advantage - LSPPP is a
very "lean" PPP packet driver ...

As for IP numbers - I wasn't talking about the user's IP address,
which as you say, is normally dynamic nowadays. I was talking
about the ISP's (host) IP address - LSPPP can detect this, just
like other modern PPP clients ...

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thomas Webb [SMTP:tawebb AT earthlink DOT net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 13 March 2001 3:24
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Explorer, Netscape, Win31, Arachne etc
> 
> >         [da Silva, Joe]
> > 
> >         You can also make Arachne use 0.0.0.0 IP numbers,
> >         by using the LSPPP packet driver (LadSoft), plus :
> >         "http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/lspppcfg.zip",
> >         "http://jds-freeware.hypermart.net/patch17x.zip"
> 
> Arachne has ppp with dynamic ip support bundled in and an easy install
> menu, if you are using a modem to get to the internet. Is there an
> advantage to using the above software??
> 
> Since most of our machines sit on a local network, we use DHCP support
> from a linux box on the same backbone.  
> 
> If you use the telnet and ftp plugins with arachne, you have to either
> assign static IPs on each client :-( or have BOOTP support from
> somewhere. Fortunately, the DHCP software in linux still provides
> support for BOOTP. The plugins are versions of NCSA Telnet from the
> University of Illinois, tweaked at Clarkson College, and don't have DHCP
> support. The "Phone" package from the University of Minnesota has a nice
> user interface and supports slip and will grap the ip out of the data
> stream. Not many ISPs still support slip, but a few do. 
> 
> > 
> > > Internet explorer 5.0 is available for Win31, as well as late versions
> > >
> >         [da Silva, Joe]
> > 
> >         Huh?!  Where from???
> > 
> 
> 
> Try http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/
> 
> --
> Tom Webb
> Come visit at http://wordwonder.com