Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:54:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Marco Masotti <masotti@mclink.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP in quiet mode and (semi)dynamic addressing Message-ID: <199804230054.BAA20667@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:44:19 -0000." <353DCA03.794BDF32@mclink.it>
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> I'm trying to set up a PPP connection in quiet mode. > > 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? In user-ppp, ``set ifaddr x.x.x.x 10.0.0.1/0''. Check out the ppp docs (man ppp). > PS: Does anybody figure out the sense for that ISP's way to set up? Maybe he's got terminal servers in more than one location - sounds like a reasonable setup to me :-) > Many thanks! > > - Marco -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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