> I'm thoroughly confused.

Let's see if we can fix that ;-)

> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > There are two how-to kits on ftp.macbsd.com for setting up ppp. They
> > both work with dynamic addresses.

I believe Bill wrote in shortly after this message to say that he was 
wrong...

> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, era eriksson wrote:
> 
> > (dial-on-demand doesn't work with dynamic, as Paul and Bill already
> > pointed out)

The above is true

> Is the "Bill" in era eriksson's message Bill Studenmund, or a different
> Bill?  Does or does not ppp-dod work with dynamic addressses?

The Bill is Bill Studenmund, and dod-ppp does _not_ work with dynamic 
addresses...

> Paul Goyette's read me for ppp-dod states that "you need to specify your
> own IP address and the IP address of your ISP's router.  If you don't have
> fixed values for these, you probably can't use dial-on-demand - sorry."
> Is this accurate or can I modify it as per Bill Studenmund's instructions
> ("Just don't have an IP address set in your options file and
> the other end will tell you your address.") ?

Jeff, I'd go with Paul's instructions, I think that they are the correct 
ones.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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