[pptp-server] PPTPD Problems

[osiris at urbanna.net]

I think he just didn't write what he meant.  He likely means that the IP
address should be set to be in the same subnet as the RAS....  OTHO if the
service provider is doing his job and he has not paid for a static IP
address, he should be setup as a DHCP client.

-m-

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Cowles, Steve wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lists at earthling.2y.net [mailto:lists at earthling.2y.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:40 PM
> > To: Charlie Brady
> > Cc: poptop at kaiserdigital.com; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> > Subject: Re: [pptp-server] PPTPD Problems
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > You should set Localip to a single IP address, which should 
> > > match the LAN address of your server. Make sure that proxyarp
> > > is set in your pppd options.
> >
> > Uhh... No.  This is not a good idea, it will confuse many many
> > applications, not to mention just about every routing daemon 
> > out there, and freeswan.  I could probilly take a look into the
> > code, but I'm willing to bet that for proxyarp, it only cares
> > about the remote endpoint IP address being in the subnet of one
> > of the network cards.
> > 
> > Potentially, you could set the localip to just about any ip, 
> > or the same ip for all the interfaces, but things will still
> > get confused, and freeswan will wine.  Its best, just so your
> > system dosent get confused to use seperate addies for every
> > endpoint.
> 
> Huh! Care to elaborate on which applications/routing daemons get confused. I
> haven't seen any problems at my end and I run PoPToP and IPSEC configured
> the way Charlie mentioned. At least I have not seen or heard of any
> wining!!!
> 
> Steve Cowles
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