From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 12:15:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09898 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09879 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id NAA06543; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:13:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704161913.NAA06543@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: need help with dynamic IP TCP/IP dial-up To: matrix@norilsk.ru (Artem Koutchine) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:13:25 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704160729.LAA07896@omni.norilsk.ru> from "Artem Koutchine" at Apr 16, 97 03:31:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a really big problem. I have a server running FreeBSD 2.1.0 with > 5 telephone line and i need to allow user to connect to the server using > dynamic IP (TCP/IP, PPP). I am kinda new to FreeBsd and i couldn't even > find anything in the dox about making a spool of IP address and dynamicly > allocating them during connection and then deallocating when a user leaves. The solution to this problem is more obvious that you thought: the IP addresses don't have to be dynamic *to the server*. Just setup each of the 5 lines as a dial-in PPP line with a fixed IP address. The clients must be ready to accept whatever IP addresses are given to them, as they may reach a different port on each dial-in. > By now several people how tried to help me (not from questions@freebsd.org) > and they were talking about installing geted instead of routed. They said > that i > need gated in order to allow local networks (for example, with NT server) > to connect to my server via static ip. Is that true ? Routed *should* be able to handle this. It depends in part on what IP addresses you're routing for the dial-ups; are the users dialing in from a single system or another network which must be routed? If so, are the dial-up networks separate network addresses, or subnets of your network address? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com