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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
Cc:        "'Ertan Kucukoglu'" <ert@hotpop.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911101547420.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D6C@site2s1>

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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:

> How would ipfw determine the username if the connection is coming from a
> remote machine?

That would be implemented on a per-IP basis, however if someone is willing
to provide an IP encapsulation capable of such a feat it sure would be
interesting...

-Alfred


> 
> -Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@wintelcom.net]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, November 10, 1999 5:54 PM
> > To:	Christopher Michaels
> > Cc:	'Ertan Kucukoglu'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject:	RE: 'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:	Ertan Kucukoglu [SMTP:ert@hotpop.com]
> > > > Sent:	Friday, November 05, 1999 3:32 PM
> > > > To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > > Subject:	'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Suppose that I run ppp with command line like 'ppp -alias ...'. And I
> > want
> > > > some of my users to use direct internet access (others use proxy
> > server)
> > > > and others do not.
> > > > 
> > > > Can I do above story?
> > > > 
> > > Users or machines?
> > > 
> > > I don't belive you can do this on a per-user basis.  Would you should be
> > > able to do is setup ipfirewall to restrict traffic going over the ppp
> > link
> > > from certain machines.
> > 
> > ipfw allows per-uid settings (at least in 4.0) ppp has some
> > 'ipfw-like' features built in that can block certain IPs based on
> > source/destination.
> > 
> > I think it's a matter of studying the documentation, this should
> > definetly be possible.



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