From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 17:23:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13087 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13017 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:23:07 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00279; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:22:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP in quiet mode and (semi)dynamic addressing In-Reply-To: <353DCA03.794BDF32@mclink.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Marco Masotti wrote: > I'm trying to set up a PPP connection in quiet mode. Quiet mode .. what is that? > Unfortunately the local ISP assign a fixed IP just for (my) local > address, that never changes, while let the remote (ISP) address dynamic, > so this latter changing at every connection. > > The changing remote ISP addresses can be in the two different ranges > 192.x.x.x and 195.x.x.x. > > Is this semi-dynamic configuration feasible and how could I accomodate > the two above ranges? It should handle it OK, as long as you wildcard the remote address as HISADDR. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message