RE: [MiNT] DHCP for MiNT-Net?

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Martin-Eric Racine [SMTP:q-funk@pp.fishpool.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 30, 1999 12:38 PM
> To:	johnnie ligotage
> Cc:	MiNT List
> Subject:	Re: [MiNT] DHCP for MiNT-Net?
> 
> > Usually with ISP's, they assign you one when you make the connection,
> > which isn't DHCP at all.
> > 
> > I could be massively wrong here :-)
> 
> If you are using home-ISDN or cable-net, DHCP is used, not PPP
> negociation.  In fact, PPP isn't used at all in such a case, as
> Ethernet has its own set of protocols.
> 
All ISDN-solutions I know about (and have used) use normal PPP and assigns
IP-addresses that way. There are some (semi)professional stuff (ISDN
routers) that use DHCP to assign addresses to the LAN, but simple ISDN T/A's
are seen as and used as modems as far as the computer concerns.

Cable/ethernet is a whole other issue, and unless you can get fixed
addresses (a waste) I don't think there are other practical solutions than
DHCP. I don't know any details about the DHCP protocol though, so I have no
idea how easy it would be to port it to MiNTnet.

Jo Even Skarstein