From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 21: 4:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A5537B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA87535; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9U54m642592; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200010300504.e9U54m642592@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: Assigning a netmask with mpd In-Reply-To: "from Smith@ian.org at Oct 30, 2000 00:00:31 am" To: Smith@ian.org Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:04:47 -0800 (PST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message