On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:15:26AM -0500, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> > I'm switching ISPs, and I'm having some trouble getting my existing peer
> > file working with the new peer. First off, with the old one, I had a
> > static IP address, so I had the myaddr:youraddr line in the peer file.
> > With this ISP, I'm getting a dynamic one. That may be the whole of the
> > problem. I'm trying to use demand/persist dialing. I understand that
> > I'll need to include ":youraddr" in the peer file - but my question is,
> > how do I find out what that address should be?
> 
> Ask the ISP. At the very last you can do sewveral tests in manual dialin
> and see if the remote address is always the same ...

If you have a static IP, you can put anything for the remote. As long
as you have ipcp-accept-remote, it will change automatically each time
you get a different server. If you _don't_ have a static IP, you must
have ipcp-accept-local as well, and demand/persist probably won't work.
:'(


Frederick