Re: Multiple logins

Adam Goryachev (adamg@dot.net.au)
Fri, 30 May 1997 13:16:57 +0000

Stephen Zedalis wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 May 1997, Adam Goryachev wrote:
>
> >Personally, by accident, I found an excellent method of doing this, assign the
> >username a static IP address, each time they login they get the SAME IP, as
> >soon as two ports have the same IP, the portmaster will do its proprietary MPP
> >thingy, once this happens each person using the IP will get around half the
> >packets they should get, get massive timeouts, and generally nothing will work
> >:)
>
> Thats cool, UNTIL they realize that linux has an EQL driver that also
> talks the "proprietary MPP thingy", then the two ports have the same IP
> and the user has a 57.6K (or better) analog connection with two or
> more 28.8 modems. And it works great.
>
not over multiple PM2's (unfortunately!)
Of course, with the system we have in place, we simply bill them twice as much
if they do this. So they quickly stop doing it :)

Adam

PS: A large number of people simply expect that it is impossible to have
multiple logins, and so they figure that 'if it works, its ok'