Re: Question about range of addresses in pppd (invoked against a pppoe server)

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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 ...

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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