On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:19:52 -0000, you wrote:

>Arkadiusz Patyk <a...@areq.eu.org> said:
>> ifconfig-pool is fine, but I would need an option for IP
>> reservation for users.
>> The reservation could be realized on thebase of x509name
>> for example:
>> fixed-address 10.8.0.46
>/C=PL/ST=NA/O=Dot.net/CN=Maciej.Nowak/emailAddress=m.no...@firma.com
>> fixed-address 10.8.0.50
>/C=PL/ST=NA/O=Dot.net/CN=Zenon.Ptak/emailAddress=z.p...@firma.com
>> 
>> which would guarantee that user X always gets address Y
>> as option fixed-address in dhcpd
>> 
>> The possibility of IP reservation will simplify firewall configuration -
>> espesially if it is installed on other machine than openvpn server.
>
>Yes, I agree that this feature is necessary.  But I'm concerned that making
>options that take an x509 name as a parameter (as you propose with
>'fixed-address' above) might not be general enough.  I think that people are
>going to want the ability to arbitrarily customize the options which are
>pushed back to the client based on the client's x509 name.
>
>What if it were done by scripting?

Nice, it's OK for me. 

>A script would be called with the x509 name, and the script could then
>generate options which would either be executed locally or pushed to the 
>client.
>This would offer more general, programmatic control over customizing the
>tunnel based on the x509 name.

All options ?

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