From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 25 08:21:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22076 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22063 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04569; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:20:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Damian Hamill cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP gateway clients In-Reply-To: <3360C297.3F54BC7E@cablenet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Damian Hamill wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jason Fesler wrote: > > > > > At 10:53 AM 4/24/97 -0400, Steve wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >Anyone know how to support smtp gateways without a static IP on the > > > >client's end? > > > > As to *really* doing SMTP to a dynamic IP, er.. ya, right. > > We've been doing that successfully for the last 2 years. > How do you do it? > > I thought so - but I had to take a shot in case I was living in the dark > > or something. A competitor who had the world convinced he was the > > largest, supported dialup SMTP. of course this was because in reality he > > had 32 lines and didnt have the class C boundary crossing problems > > associated with having hundreds of lines. > > I don't see what this has to do with it. What problems are associated > with crossing Class C boundaries ? I have annex4000 term servers. I can set a dedicated IP to a user, but if they connect on a term server in a different class C they get the IP but there is no route to it.