From: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about range of addresses in pppd (invoked against a
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:24:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C13FAF5.3000203@workingcode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinVWfrKYsL2XZNGyNXdo_AFv8KYLWURJDB6O830@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/12/2010 6:29 AM, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> I had this following problem:
> On one machine I have a PPPoE server, which is running by issuing:
> pppoe-server -I eth0 -R 10.0.0.10. -L 10.0.0.20
>
> Now, I an creating ppp connections to this server from a different
> remote machine.
> This connections are short while connections.
>
> The first connection gets 10.0.0.10, the second gets 10.0.0.11, and so on.
> The thing is that after 10.0.0.19 it **does** gets 10.0.0.20 !!
> and afterwards it gets 10.0.0.21, 10.0.0.22, and so on.
> Is there a way to prevent if and cause it not to get IP addresses
> beyond 10.0.0.19 ?
The man page for pppoe-server suggests that you should specify "-N 10"
to limit yourself to 10 addresses. Have you tried that?
Note that "-R" sets the remote addresses and "-L" sets the local
addresses. It's not clear that you have it configured well ...
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
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2010-06-12 10:29 Question about range of addresses in pppd (invoked against a pppoe Mark Ryden
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