[pptp-server] Wrong netmask

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Sun Jan 14 11:40:11 CST 2001


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:17:44 +0100 (MET), you wrote:

>When my Windows 98 client connects to my linux box, it gets the wrong
>netmask.
>
>It should be: 255.255.255.0 
>But the assigned netmask is: 255.255.0.0
AFAIK there's no way you can force the netmask to a win9x client.
The pppd option is for the local interface.
I searched for this issue in the list archive when I had this problem.

We renumbered our lan to make win9x chose 255.255.255.0 :(

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