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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: RE: Explorer, Netscape, Win31, Arachne etc (#2.1)
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:05:23 +0100
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Joe wrote:
>Are you sure it "just fakes" it???

Yes I'm sure, it (epppd) recognizes the request for a BOOTP answer and
answers. It never actually issue a BOOTP request.

>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.

Ah, but someone must tell EPPPD the values. I have looked several times
(since this is one of the things that I never seem to be able to persuade
people I'm correct about) that it actually does this. The program does the
following (and a lot more of course):

1. Gets the data from the outside world (DNS from user, IP from the other
end).
2. Checks if a package it's about to send is a BOOTP question. And if so
answers with the information it has.

Please note that the ip-ip.bat file only answers in the same way, once more
nothing is asked anywhere - it just outputs into the file what the user
gave as input (+ the IP address of course).

If you happen to see clearly (in the code) that something else is going on
please tell me what it is, since I can't see it and I have looked several
times since people constantly seem to think otherwise.

Since this has nothing to do with OpenDOS at all (and quite frankly is a
boring subject IMHO) I'll drop this now (especially since I can bet almost
anything that you will NOT be able to find anything that says otherwise in
the EPPPD source).
//Bernie