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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Smith@ian.org
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Assigning a netmask with mpd
Message-ID:  <200010300504.e9U54m642592@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010292358400.31126-100000@user1.erieonline.com> "from Smith@ian.org at Oct 30, 2000 00:00:31 am"

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Smith@ian.org writes:
> I have a MPD configuration for doing a Microsoft VPN server,
> but teh problem is most of the netbios garbage doesn't work
> because the client windows box gets a netmask of 255.0.0.0
> which should be 255.255.255.0 for my network.
> 
> Any clue how to tell MPD that I want it to assign a /24
> netmask to client machines?  i can't seem to find a 
> setting for this anywhere. :-(

There is no standard in PPP for telling the client a netmask,
hence no such configuration in mpd.

And Windows provides no opportunity for configuring it manually.

So, it sucks.. sorry.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com


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