Fw: [pptp-server] Managing multiple authentication domains

[Gord Belsey]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gord Belsey <gord at amador.ca>
To: Mike Ireton <mike at bayoffice.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Managing multiple authentication domains


> Have a look at the options ipcp-accept-local and ipcp-accept-remote.  With
> these commands in your /etc/ppp/options file, PoPToP will accept a clients
> request for specific IP addresses rather than assigning them from a pool.
> The clioent then can request a local and remote address for the ppp
> connection.  The advantage is you can control what address (therefore
> subnet) the client is using.
>
> This works well with linbux clients. You configure local and remote
> addresses in the command string for opening a pptp connection to the
PoPToP
> server.
>
>  However, I haven't looked at windows clients to see how to implement
this,
> so if you're using windows clients, maybe someone else has tried this, or
> has another solution (I'd be interested in hearing about this as well).
Let
> me (us) know what client you're using and maybe I can give more info.
>
> Hope this is helpful
>
> Gord Belsey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Ireton <mike at bayoffice.net>
> To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:28 PM
> Subject: [pptp-server] Managing multiple authentication domains
>
>
> > Howdy,
> > So I would like to know how I would solve the following problem
> > with poptop/pppd:
> >
> > A router serves three different organizations - we'll call them
> > companya, companyb, and companyc. These are all assigned IP addresses
such
> > as 10.1.1/24, 10.1.2/24 and 10.1.3/24.
> >
> > An employee of companya vpn's in. I want her to be assigned an ip
> > address within companya's address range (10.1.1/24). Then employee's of
> > companyb and companyc vpn in as well, and I want them to be assigned
> > addresses within their respective ranges as well.
> >
> > It appears to me that I cannot do this. Instead, I need to choose
> > a range of IP addresses ahead of time and cannot base the number chosen
> > upon the chap credentials used to authenticate with.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
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