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Sheldon Isaac wrote:
>
> Please excuse, but what do slhc and ppp do?

slhc is a helper module for ppp.  ppp is the protocol
used to link to your ISP over the phone line.

> what is dhcp?  Why and how would one use it?

dhcp is a tool for automatically configuring your
network card (instead of ifconfig).  It relies on
a dhcp server running the network.  When you execute
the dhcp client (included in BL2 and BL3), it sends 
a message to the network (out eth0) asking the dhcp 
server to give it an address to use.

Cheers,
Steven