Re: Portmaster.. (fwd)

Christian Nielsen (cnielsen@ut.rockymt.net)
Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:29:05 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Jon Lusky wrote:

> Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz writes:
> >
> > > Do you know the new release of ComOS for the Postmaster will send the
> > >nameserver address as part of the PPP negotiations? We are having people
> > >hard code the name server address which works fine until you swtich IP's.
> >
> > No.
>
> (I know this is getting off topic, but i guess it could lead to another "feature
> request" depending on the answer...)
>
> Is there even a provision for obtaining a nameserver address in the current
> RFC for PPP? Is Win95 actually negotiating this at the PPP layer or is
> it using something like DHCP?

The new macs use RARP in thier TCP/IP setup...