Re: (PM) Simple problem? (PM2e30)

Don Lashier (dl@newportnet.com)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 23:34:51 -0800

On 3/8/99, at 11:03 AM, Bob Love wrote:

>I've had a few PM2e30's sitting on my desk for a while, I'm in the process
>of upgrading from NT RAS to Portmasters/Radius
<snip>

>On the Portmaster however, the only thing it's handing the user is the IP
>address everything else has to be configured at the client end (DNS etc).=
I
>don't relish the thought of having to talk several thousand users through
>changing their settings, how can I make the Portmaster or Radius hand the
>client a gateway and DNS entries?

Not true, set the dns servers into the Portmasters and you don't have to
put any numbers into the client other than the phone number. You are going
to want to tell your users to uncheck "logon to network" if they've got
that set however. Otherwise logon with take forever or fail.

>The Portmaster has an IP pool of 30 addresses. I log in and it gives me=
the
>first address from the pool. I log off. I log in again and get the 2nd
>address from the pool - why? The first address should be available?

This is normal, it rotates thru the address pool.

Don

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