Cron job to restart Panther Server VPN service

[orgo]

Hi,

I have the VPN server in Panther Server running well but have one small annoyance.
The IP addresses allocated to each new connection keep getting incremented by 1. This means that I have to remember to restart the VPN service every now and then to reset the IP back to the start of the range.
I do this via VPN using Server Admin.
Is there some way to set VPN to automatically reset the IPs?
I thought that a cron (?) job may be a good alternative. Could set it to run each week at say 2am on a Sunday.

Running 10.3.9
G4 DP450/1GB/120GB RAID 1
Used for AFP & VPN

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[orgo]

Well it appears ther problem was been solved. In fact there was no problem in the first place:)

Received this response from Camelot over at Apple Discussions:
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You shouldn’t need to restart the VPN service at all.

When the VPN gets to the end of its address range it’ll just wrap around, re-using any addresses that aren’t already assigned. This means that if you have a range of 10 IPs, 192.168.1.101-110, the 10th connection will get the .110 address and the 11th will get the .1 address (provided it isn’t already in use by another user at that time).
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Done!

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