[ale] 5.x.x.x IP range

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 14:44:34 EST 2013


Sounds like that's the range used by the pptp process. Winders is strange.
On Dec 13, 2013 2:33 PM, "Edward Holcroft" <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:

> All
>
> I have set up a Freeradius box on Ubuntu in order to authenticate remote
> Doze users against Active Vasectomy. It all works fine with Doze users
> dialing in to the router using PPTP.
>
> What took me a while to figure out was that the client IP's coming in from
> remote offices were all 5.x.x.x, rather than the 192.168.100.x and
> 192.168.110.x etc that we have assigned to our various regional offices.
> Why would the dial-up clients be getting these addresses rather than an IP
> from the DHCP range on the router in the relevant 192.168.x.x range?
>
> What is 5.x.x.x? I've never heard of them before and am I allowed to use
> them? More importantly, where are they coming from? I never set anything to
> offer IP's in that range, unless it's some kind of default.
>
> ed
>
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