[ale] PPP Question

[Joseph A Knapka]

Chris Fowler wrote:

> I know that pppd supports locks in regards to the tty.  Is there a way to
> support
> locks on the ip.  To keep two pppd sessions from trying to use the same ip?


Er, how could that even happen?

Anyway, I suppose you could put some code in your ppp-up script
that checked what IPs were currently configured on the machine.
But I don't see why this is necessary; you can just configure
your PPP sessions to use different IPs (eg via a.b.c.d:w.x.y.z
options).

Cheers,

-- Joe
   Using open-source software: free.
   Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.


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