Re: [lwip-users] Status of PPP implementation

[Peter Graf]

Jacob,

> One of the reasons I'm going for PPP is because of it's auto-negotiating 
> feature. To my knowledge SLIP has no such feature, and I think that's a 
> need-to-have. I definitely want my highly embedded system to be able to 
> fetch an IP of it's own.
>
> Maybe I've missed something!?

SLIP has no builtin support for dynamic address assignment, but a SLIP 
server can print your IP address (as well as the server's address) when you 
connect. You can capture these numbers from the output of the server and 
use them to configure the lwIP SLIP device.

Peter