[pptp-server] "localip" option

Charlie Brady charlieb at e-smith.com
Tue Dec 4 09:28:25 CST 2001


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Josh Howlett wrote:

> What's the point of allocating more than one IP address to the
> "localip" option, if (as seems to be the case) all running pppd
> instances can share the same IP address without any problems.
>
> anyone know?

There might be some point if you have multiple ethernet networks, and want
to proxyarp bind to a different network. Or if you want to have different
packet filtering rules applied.

Charlie Brady                         charlieb at e-smith.com
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