Re: Win95 Dial-in Clients
John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:50:41 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Bill Lutton wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:25:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
> >> Are you saying that the PM wants me to take 206.168.18.1?
> >> As far as I know this is the IP address of my ISP's PM.
> >
> >Typo, I think. The PM is sending an IPCP request telling the remote that
> >it should be the IP address 206.168.18.241, not 206.168.18.1.
>
> Typo, yes, sorry.
> Well, in desperation :-), I dug out my old dog-eared copy of RFC1332
> dated May92. In the description of the IP-Address option (3) it says:
>
> The four octet IP-Address is the desired local address of the
> sender of a Configure-Request. If all four octets are set to
> zero, it indicates a request that the peer provide the IP-Address
> information.
>
> Although my copy of 1332 is probably out of date, it seems to me
> to favor the interpretation that the PM "announces" its own IP addr
> in its conf req. Except for the interpretation of the PM's conf req and
> the remote's ack of it, I think we're pretty much on the same page.
>
> What do you think?
> Bill
Yes. I agree.
I don't think rfc1332 has been superceeded as yet.
JGT
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