Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:00:06 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mpd and bringing up routes at connect time Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020720215920.07694b88@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <200207210143.g6L1hIF74872@arch20m.dellroad.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020716111422.07bc1498@marble.sentex.ca>
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Thanks for the clarification. I think I will try and take your suggestion and see about adding a route at connect time via the secrets file. ---Mike At 06:43 PM 7/20/2002 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: >Mike Tancsa writes: > > Is there any way with mpd to automatically bring up a route when a > customer > > connects using pptp where multiple users are connecting ? The problem I > > am running into is that user X will PPTP into the server. As they will > come > > in on different netgraph interfaces, the route needs to be pointed to a > > different netgraph interface each time. > >If each user always connects from the same, distinct IP address then >the answer is yes - just allocate a separate bundle for each user. > >Otherwise, mpd doesn't support doing that. It wouldn't be too difficult >of a hack though, to add a route to the mpd.secrets file in the same way >that you can add an IP address. > > > Specifically, how do I add n routes to user X's connection on demand. Is > > it possible with mpd ? > >If you know the bundle that will be chosen ahead of time (same thing >as knowing the client's IP address ahead of time, as mentioned above) >then just use the 'set iface route ...' command. Otherwise, you can't >currently do it. > >-Archie > >__________________________________________________________________________ >Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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