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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:37:28 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Paul Dekkers <paul@nev.ml.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PAP and IP addresses 
Message-ID:  <199708272337.AAA02430@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:08:19 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.96.970827220514.111H-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org> 

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> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> >> Can I, and how, setup PAP so that a user gets a different IP than
> >> another user, e.g. 'user1' gets 192.168.1.1 (always) and 'user2'
> >> 192.168.1.2...? Or do I really have to work with normal accounts?
> >
> >Put an entry in ppp.secret ?
> 
> You mean pap-secrets?
> Well, I can put something like this in it:
> client	me	""	192.168.1.20
> but when I start pppd with
> pppd 192.168.1.1: <more options>
> and not with
> pppd 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.20 <more options>
> it does NOT do the same as the second line...
> I hoped it would, but in this case the client is free to chooce it's ip,
> and in that case it chooses the ip of it's primary device, not the correct
> ip... :-( (and because the client is not allowed to, pppd kicks out)
> 
> So, I don't think that's a solution, or is there a parameter I didn't look
> at carefully enough?

Sorry, I thought you were talking ppp - not pppd :-|

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