Re: (PM) Port IP's

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 17:16:57 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 25 May 1998, Robert Hough wrote:

> When a user connects to our pm2e, I noticed it assigns ip's randomly. I am
> going to assume, I can tell it, what port gets what ip, but I dont see it
> anywhere in the docs. So, I assumed it would be like adding an ip to the
> ethernet port. Before I try this, I just want to make sure this is correct.
> Here's what I *think* I should do... set s0 x.x.x.x, set s1 x.x.x.x, etc...
> is this right?

No, you set an assigned address which will be the address of the first
serial port available for incoming ppp on the 2e. Then the user is
assigned a PPP address from that pool, assuming his user entry specifies
ASSIGNED as the ip address.

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