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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Dial-Up Slip??
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Date: 4 Dec 90 00:11:57 GMT
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Dial-up SLIP is easy if you only have one dial-in line.  You give everyone
who might call the same remote IP address, and everything is fine.  The
problems arise with more than one line: SLIP alone doesn't have any way of
telling the far end "you came in on line 5; use 192.9.1.6 as your address
and 192.9.1.7 as your router for this session".  Some people use BOOTP for
this purpose.  Others use PPP, which has the address/default gateway
negotiation built in.

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