[PLUG] Comcast Bouncing Outbound Mail

[Aaron Ten Clay]

Wil Cooley said:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:17, AthlonRob wrote:
>> On Friday 11 June 2004 12:21 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> >   Do dial-up lines have IP addresses?
>>
>> Yes.  Essentially every system with Internet access has an IP address.
>>
>> When you dial up, generally your ISP assigns you an IP address via DHCP.
>
> Actually, with dial-up the IP address is negotiated as part of the PPP
> handshake, not DHCP.
>
> Wil
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> Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
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>

Actually, I believe PPP and IP are completely seperate protocols. I have
used PPP without any IP at all in the past. (IPX only)

So it would be correct to say that the DHCP exchange takes place after the
PPP session has been established.
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Aaron Ten Clay
Ultravolt Networks System Administrator
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