Re: SLIP dialup to internet

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Palmer wrote:

> I think your ISP is dynamically assigning your AS/400's address each
> time you dial into them.
> Dial-up connections are basically good for you to get access out to the
> Internet, not very useful for the Internet to access you if your IP
> address changes each time you dial-in.
>
> Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~

I understand that a dialup solution would not be good for serving, but I'm only
looking to learn/test this setup that will eventually be a dedicated connection.
Once dedicated, we will use a router, and that will eliminate the SLIP portion.

My ISP is dynamically assigning an IP to me, that part of my SLIP script is
setup, and the 400 correctly assigns itself the address.  My problem is that I
don't quite understand what the remote IP address is.

When I try to ping the 400 from another internet PC, one of my ISP's routers
responds that the host is unreachable.

Wouldn't this type of dial up setup be useful when you pay an ISP to be your 
mail
server, and your as/400 just dials in at intervals to retrieve the mail down to
its own POP3 server?

--
Art Tostaine, Jr.
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ 08859


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