Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:46:11 +1300 From: Andrew Bevin <zabeva@nzsakl.bhp.com.au> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: pppd questions Message-ID: <31B4BCB3.5A32@nzsakl.bhp.com.au>
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Hi, I'm a small isp in New Zealand running FreeBSD 2.1 Stable. I am currently using pppd with PAP authentation. I have pppd running directly on the dialin ports rather than getty. I have PAP using the 'login' feature where it uses the password file and updates wtmp. Due to the way I am billed I charge by IP traffic rather than time, therefore it is easier for me to allocate fixed IP addresses to my users. At the moment I have to tell by users to enter their IP address in there TCP setup rather than have my server allocate them an IP address. I cant find a way to allocate the users their IP address on connect. pppd can set the IP addresses that users _can_ have via pap_secrets but pppd doesnt force the user to have that IP address. I can't user ~/.ppprc as it seems that pppd is not reading the ~/.ppprc file as the user is not actually logging into the server. Does any one know how I can allocate the IP address on a user basis? With PAP and the 'login' option pppd is adding an entry to wtmp, but it doesn't seem to be updating wtmp it when the user exits. I could look at this myself, but I wonder if it is something that is being looked at at the moment? Despite runnning Stable I am still getting the left over arp entries appearing after a user falls off the system. At the moment I have a script that deletes these entries every 5 minutes. Is there a solution imminent? TIA Andrew Bevin
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