PPTP installation-configuration in FC4?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:25:08 +0300, "Razvan Corneliu C.R. \"d3vi1\"
VILT" <razvan.vilt at linux360.ro> wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:23 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> A last question:
>> I am asked to supply a Client-to-LAN rout and the help says to enter
>> in the form 10.0.0.0/8
>> What does this mean? I actually connect to a network using 10.0.0.0
>> with a netmask of 255.255.255.0. How should the route rule be set
>> then?
>> I tried adding it as 10.0.0.0/8 (literally), but I get no reply when I
>> ping a known server by IP address from a terminal window in FC4.
>
>Although I haven't followed the thread, what you're saying make me
>wonder. You cannot really have an ip address of 10.0.0.0 with a netmask
>of 255.255.255.0, but that's probably the network address, which make-it
>possible. In that case what you're looking for is more like 10.0.0.0/24
>

What I mean is that the PC:s on the remote network have addresses like
10.0.0.7, 10.0.0.32, 10.0.0.48 etc. On that LAN the netmask is set to
255.255.255.0 meaning that there are max 254 addresses available.

My question was rather the *format* of the entry as it was stated on
the pptpconfig/route screen as 10.0.0.0/8

I hade never before encountered such a network specification....
But fiddling around a bit made me set it to 10.0.0.0/8 and then it
works, at least for what I am doing.

Now I try to use cvs and I ran into a different problem altogether, I
can't get the keyboard to supply the @ char and without that I am dead
on CVS...
New thread for this though.
Bo Berglund