From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 18:31:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01082 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:31:12 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20667; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:54:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804230054.BAA20667@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP in quiet mode and (semi)dynamic addressing In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:44:19 -0000." <353DCA03.794BDF32@mclink.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:54:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 , , 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