From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 13 20:31:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA0115244 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA20821; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:29:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:29:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Brian Somers Cc: FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: ppp using dynamic IPs In-Reply-To: <199906140238.DAA58299@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > > I am setting up a new machine, the server side of a bunch of ppp > > connections, and I have it now working for static IPs. I am letting > > login do my security checking (owner wants that, it's not my choice), > > but I need to be able to convert it to using dynamic IPs. > > > > I have the user's shell set up as /usr/local/bin/ppplogin, which starts > > the user's ppp session. Is using dynamic IPs (from the server side, NOT > > the user side) documented anywhere, of can someone describe what I have > > to do? I have the block of IPs already. > > > > (I'm converting an old BSDi machine to FreeBSD. Owner says I can > > convert ppp to chap after I get it working the old way first.) > > Hmm, this isn't very ``searchable'' in the user-ppp man page (I'll > add the word ``dynamic'' somwhere :-) > > > Hisaddr may also be specified as a range of IP numbers in the > format > > IP[-IP][,IP[-IP]]... > > for example: > > set ifaddr 10.0.0.1 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.10,10.0.1.20 > > > The range can be put in ppp.conf as above or even in ppp.secret if > you want to change the range based on their pap or chap username. Great, this actually searches for which numbers are currently not in use? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message