Re: [MiNT] DHCP for MiNT-Net?

[Mikko Larjava <mitala@ftp.funet.fi>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> > > 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.

I don't know what kind of ISDN you mean but the one I have at home uses 
PPP as normal modem. The ISDN box is connected to serial port not to the 
ethernet. I haven't heard of boxes that use ethernet for connection but 
that's just me. There's one which uses USB but I don't know anything else 
about it.