Re: [Openvpn-users] Static IPs - ipp.txt vs. ifconfig-push.

[David B. <Dav...@he...>]

Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2008-02-22 10:30, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
> > Hi Dom,
> > 
> > Dom Latter wrote:
> >> I have an Ubuntu server ("mum") and three clients ("tom" 
> and "dick", Debian,
> >> and "harry" - Windows).  Tom and Dick need to talk to Harry.
> >>
> >> Two questions here, I guess.  When I first installed a 
> (pretty standard)
> >> OpenVPN routed setup, the assigned IPs were:
> >> mum: 10.X.Y.1
> >> tom: 10.X.Y.6
> >> dick: 10.X.Y.8
> >> harry: 10.X.Y.14
> >>
> >> (Automagically configured IPs for the client machines)
> >>
> >> But on mum, /etc/openvpn/ipp.txt contained
> >> tom: 10.X.Y.4
> >> dick: 10.X.Y.8
> >> harry: 10.X.Y.12
> >>
> >> I donn't understand the discrepancy between the IP addresses.
> >> And I didn't like it so I decided to try ifconfig-push instead.
> >>
> >>   
> 
> I guess the real question was:
> 
> why does "dick" was assigned the IP "10.X.Y.8" instead of "10.X.Y.10"
> which you would expect from the above explanation.

And my guess about the question is :

Why was harry assigned 10.X.Y.14, but the /etc/openvpn/ipp.txt
file says : "harry: 10.X.Y.12"

Guessing is fun ;-)

Regards,
David