From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [pptp-devel] Re: pppd and NetworkManager - 3 issues
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:31:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051123043119.GB18231@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438341FB.70709@ncl.ac.uk>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:39:30AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> a) The IP of the VPN server
[snip]
> Another method is to do the DNS resolution before you call pppd or pptp,
> that way you'll have the IP address already.
For establishing static routes, the Microsoft Network Access
Quarantine feature of Windows Server 2003, and other uses, one really
does need to know the IP of the server. For my purposes, my
hand-rolled scripts do the DNS resolution, then call pppd with the IP
address, and this works quite well.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
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2005-11-22 16:06 pppd and NetworkManager - 3 issues Antony J Mee
2005-11-22 23:39 ` James Cameron
2005-11-23 4:31 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
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