I've configured a PPTP server and I'm trying to understand it, specially regarded to IPs. Connected clients get's assigned IPs by PPTP, not DHCP, right?
- is there a way to use DHCP instead? If not, why?
- is there a way to configure anything about this assignment? The only thing I've found I can do is to create a pool and assign it to the profile.
- also other values assigned to the client are somewhat strange. For example DNS. I have set up DHCP Client for my WAN. If DHCP Client/Use Peer DNS is selected, then those IPs are passed to clients. If not, client gets DNS Settings/Servers IP (manually entered). Why? Can I change this behaviour?
- if I use the same pool for DHCP and PPTP (I don't know if this is OK, recommended, or not), won't they conflict at some point? The only curious thing I found is that DHCP assigns from high to low IP, and PPTP from low to high.
- what are those IPs that also appear on some places? For example, I've created a pool 192.168.2.1-254 (pool is shared with DHCP). On IP Pool/Used Addresses I see two IPs owned by PPTP: 192.168.2.1 (the client) and 192.168.2.xxx where xxx varies and goes up as I disconnect/connect the client. On ARP List I get IPs used by older connections (those xxx mentioned earlier). If I remove them, they are automatically added again
Djago