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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 (#2.1)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:48:42 +1100
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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