Re: Need a *bsd or linux based pptp solution for more than 254 clients

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Date: 10/29/02 

Date: 29 Oct 02 09:09:24 GMT

"ZeroesAndOnesMan" <Nope@NoSpamHere.net> writes:

>Is there a way using mpd or anything else on Linux or one of the BSDeees to
>configure a PPTP server that will support more than one class C IP address
>range when NATing the pptp clients? (I need each box to serve about 800
>users.) In PopTop the internal ip range parser can not handle IP ranges
>that have more than a single octet in the range specification and the poptop
>control daemon (pptpd) is only coded to use a single internal address pool.

We support 350+ simultaneous PPTP sessions to a (sorry for BSD readers!) Linux
server.

In pptp's configuration file, we let pppd assign the IP address to the
PPP peer. It gets the address from a Radius server (using the
papradius plug-in). Radius server, in turn, gets one IP per login
username from a database.

Greets,
_Alain_ 

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CS Communications, Thailand
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