Re: user.service patch and statis ip's
Kevin Wenzel (kwenzel@rmii.com)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:04:00 -0600
>Maybe I'm missing something, but the Merit version allows one user ID (jdoe)
>to have different reply values from the users file applied to several types
>of jdoe sessions (telnet, PPP, SLIP, etc.) In fact with 2.4 we support all
>eight (8) values of the Service-Type attribute (see the DRAFT RFC).
>
>This means that jdoe identifies herself as jdoe (not jdoe.ppp or jdoe.slip)
>and the server inspects the users file for the "canonical" user "pppuser"
>of "slipuser" depending on the hint in the incoming request found in the
>Service-Type attribute (provided there isn't already a reply-item for
>Service-Type found in the reply-items for the "real" jdoe entry.
Do all the TCP/IP stacks/dialers work with this? MacTCP/PPP, Trumpet, OS/2
gamma dialer, etc.
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Kevin Wenzel
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