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12.1.6. PPP and Dynamic IP configuration

If you service provider does not assign static IP numbers, ppp can be configured to negotiate the local address. This is done by specifying 0 as the local IP address: 

set ifaddr 0 0
See the ppp(8) manual page for more detailed information.

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