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| author | Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys.f@collabora.com> | 2026-10-28 20:09:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys.f@collabora.com> | 2026-10-28 20:16:22 +0200 |
| commit | 0736c28e9058e49786f4d2013ed6d5b41bb111a7 (patch) | |
| tree | c86d231eca915c17804c4b4f1659314bd200df69 /accel-pppd | |
| parent | 0e392406411d25270f5ab1df86eceda4b3ec8d5d (diff) | |
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docs: document IPv4 pool allocators and range limits
Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys.f@collabora.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'accel-pppd')
| -rw-r--r-- | accel-pppd/accel-ppp.conf.5 | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/accel-pppd/accel-ppp.conf.5 b/accel-pppd/accel-ppp.conf.5 index b6e8528c..eba8a39f 100644 --- a/accel-pppd/accel-ppp.conf.5 +++ b/accel-pppd/accel-ppp.conf.5 @@ -1449,16 +1449,36 @@ avoid breaking existing configuration files. .BI "tunnel=" range Specifies range of remote address of ppp interfaces if form: .br -.B x.x.x.x/mask[,name=pool_name][,next=next_pool_name] +.B x.x.x.x/mask +.br +.B x.x.x.x-y .br -.B x.x.x.x-y[,name=pool_name][,next=next_pool_name] +Both forms accept the modifiers [,name=pool_name], [,allocator=p2p|net30], +and [,next=next_pool_name]. .TP -.BI "x.x.x.x/mask[,name=pool_name][,next=next_pool_name] or x.x.x.x-y[,name=pool_name][,next=next_pool_name]" +.BI "x.x.x.x/mask or x.x.x.x-y" Also specifies range of remote address of ppp interfaces. +The same name, allocator, and next modifiers as for tunnel= are accepted. .br You may also omit the "name=" key and use a shorthand pool name after the comma, e.g. .br .B 10.0.0.0/24,pool1 +.PP +The allocator modifier selects how a range is divided. The default +.B p2p +allocator supplies one client address per allocation. The +.B net30 +allocator divides the range into four-address blocks and supplies the +address at offset 2 in each block; any incomplete trailing block is ignored. +The local PPP address still comes from +.BR gw-ip-address . +For example: +.br +.B 192.0.2.0/24,name=pool1,allocator=net30 +.PP +Each range is limited to 16777216 (2^24) allocation units: one address for +p2p or one four-address block for net30. Larger ranges are skipped and an +error is logged. Check existing ranges against this limit when upgrading. .TP .BI "attr=" attribute Specifies which Radius attribute contains pool name. |