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Re: lynx-dev lynx and DHCP
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Klaus Peter Wegge |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx and DHCP |
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:30:47 +0100 (MET) |
> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 address@hidden wrote:
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> :Hi.
> :I've downloaded lynx for dos 386+, mainly to do file transfer and stuff
> : but I don't know how to configure it to run with the DCHP dynamic IP
> :address allocation we've got here in New College, Oxford.
> :Can you reply to address@hidden, please, and let me know if this
> :is possible, and if so how?
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> No, it's not possible. Lynx-386, or more specific Waterloo tcp/ip
> need a fixed IP-address. BOOTP is possible, but DHCP isn't backward
> compatible with BOOTP.
One of my students is working on an extension of WATTCP for DHCP.
I don't know, when his work will be finished. Hopefully soon.
I'll mail to this list, when the tests are done successfully..
Klaus-Peter
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> Gisle V.
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> :Thanks alot
> :Alex