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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:06:53 +0000
From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pppoe on Plan 9
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The IP address is probably that of the service provider's DNS server, for
use on machines other than the one that establishes the PPPoE connection.

--On Monday, February 22, 2010 10:02 -0800 Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

>> I got a username, a password, and an IP address from the Internet
>> provider. How do I give this information to ip/pppoe?
>
> It should just prompt you (via factotum) for the username/password.
> The IP address should be irrelevant - the ppp server
> will tell you the IP address anyway.
>
> Russ
>