From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Carlson Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:24:05 +0000 Subject: Re: Question about range of addresses in pppd (invoked against a Message-Id: <4C13FAF5.3000203@workingcode.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org 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