On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Stephan Quitzsch wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> after reading the excellent networking-FAQ I pointed out, that connecting 
> with dynamic IP-Addresses isn't mentioned there. When I connect to our 
> terminalserver I have absolutely no idea, what my IP-Address will be. But 
> networking-FAQ says that I must do a route add from localhost to 
> remotehost BEFORE I connect. I took a look at AmiTCP and found out that 
> it routes AFTER connecting and uses env-variables to store the local and 
> remote addresses ($ppp0iplocal and $ppp0ipremote). My questions are: are 
> there similar env-variables in NetBSD and where can I find more 
> information about dynamic connecting?
> 
in your /etc/ppp/options, add noipdefault. when the ppp0 successfully
connects, your console shall show remote and local ip.

Yu Song