Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 01:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Some questions Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950806005440.7056D-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508032359.JAA04210@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > Yup, any halfway decent bookstore should have the O'reilly books, or be > > > able to get them. http://www.ora.com may be easier if you're web-literate. > > > > Hmmm, okay. How much does this book cost? > > No idea 8) I'd guess around the US$30 mark, but book prices here are > horrendous. I bought it for $29.95, how does the DNS and Bind differ from their TCP/IP book? > > > SLiRP doesn't give a stuff about IP addresses, it uses whatever the client > > > machine claims to be. If you want to do more than feed a single client, > > > then you'll need to do things 'properly'. > > > > Hmmm, is there anyway to set it up so that it will give the > > correct ip assigned to that person? > > No, read what I said; It doesn't care. SLiRP performs all network actions > on the host, as the host, it just repackages the data it receives and > sends it down the wire to the SLIP client, and takes SLIP packets from the > client and reperforms tha action as though coming from the host. > > The actual IP number used by the client is irrelevant, it never gets > used anywhere for anything other than by SLiRP to send packets back > to the client. > > I'd suggest reading the documentation for SLiRP if I'm not making sense, > I think it does a much better job 8) I know what you mean but isn't there anyway to configure SLiRP so that it will default to a certain ip address for ppp/slip for each user so that they can't be using someone else's address? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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