Re: [MiNT] DHCP for MiNT-Net?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > Would DHCP be difficult to port for MiNT-Net?  More and more 
> > Cable-Net and home-ISDN services require this to auto-fetch a
> > dynamic IP.  Getting a fixed IP is becoming too much difficult.
> 
> 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.

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