Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:19:11 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD hackerlist <FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Dynamic? PPP Server? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950225160359.17530A-100000@saul2.u.washington.edu>
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Hi Folks; Friday afternoon at 455 pm ( what a perfect time for system administration ) one of my co workers remembered that the freebsd box that i had set up as a demo for them had the capability to do ppp and slip. He asked me to look into it. So I perused the PPP and slip doc and came up short in the answer dept. He asked if we could use it to allocate ip's from a collection of 8 or so that are loose on our subnet. I assume this what is called dynamic PPP? Is the allocation from an existing net even possible? One of the products they demo'd ( a terminal server of some kind ) had to have it's own subnet. Is this intrinsic to this kind of thing or was that just a problem with their product? The PPP.doc in /usr/share/FAQ only seemed to discuss how to do this as a one fixed address to another fixed address. Also, is this the circumstances in which the machine needs to be configured as a router or gateway? If doing the dynamic PPP server thing is being done by folks out there in FreeBSD land, I would like to hear from them and how they went about it. Btw it does not need to be PPP, I had heard that PPP was simpler and faster, so that is the only reason why i am asking about PPP as opposed to slip. I am the only individual who will be visiting it with a FreeBSD box there will be one linux and to trumpet winsock boxes as well. Does this add any complication? thanks again folks! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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