Re: Fixed IP per port ?

Cristian Gafton (gafton@sorosis.ro)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:03:04 +0200 (EET)

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:

> Well, I agree it is a simple concept, but that's about all that's
> simple. The ComOS has been built from the ground up to do the dynamic IP
> address pool for dialups. I'll leave it as a homework assignement :)
> what that means about the difficulty of implementing a flag to disable
> the dynamic pool operation.

Maybe I'm too far away and don't know how ComOS works internaly, but:

a) set assi a.b.c.1
b) set s1 dest 193.226.30.226 255.255.255.255

Now a) takes precedence over b). If a) is not set, Portmaster does not
honor b) for dialup. _Is that hard_ to add a new check ? Not a flag, but
one more check...

> Fortunately, you've probably read the other email that reports that
> RADIUS can be hacked to get what you want.

Yes, one can do a lot of things with RADIUS. But the amount of work
involved in getting RADIUS to do this properly is about the same as
modifying ComOS to add that simple check, I think...

Unfortunately, I'm not very good at patching ComOS in hex :-))

Best regards,
Cristian Gafton

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