running out of IP space

Chris Chiapusio (chipper@chipsworld.bridge.net)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT)

I'm just adding my 6th portmaster and I've decided to move them to thier
own C-class of address space. To accomplish this I added this line to my
eth0 interface config on my cisco:

ip 207.xxx.xxx.1 255.255.255.0 secondary

to route a seconday C-class onto my ether.

now my problem. I use the DEFAULT config in radius to hand out dynamic
IPs, and then manually configure personal dedicated IPs to customers that
puchase them.

IC've tested this on my bottom portmaster, and it appears that the
dedicated IPs from 204.xxx.xxx.xxx will *not* 'ESTABLISH' when dialing
into the portmaster configured to have a 207.xxx.xxx.xxx address and
207.xxx.xxx.1 gateway (and dole out 207.xxx.xxx.xxx dynamic IPs)

for now it would be fine and dandy to move all my dedicated IP customers
to the new C-class, but what happens when I use up a whol C-class on
portmasters alone and I still have static IPs?

the root of my question is:

Am I going about this right?
Is there a better way?
Do I have to stop offering static IPs if my growth continues?
Am I asking the right questions?

chipperz

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