Portmaster assigning invalid IP's (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 02:44:13 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Netsites Internet Communications shaped the electrons to say...
>xxx.xxx.xxx.129 is the first pm2er with first assigned dialnet IP set at
>xxx.xxx.xxx.143
>
>xxx.xxx.xxx.131 is the second pm2er with first assigned dialnet IP set at
>xxx.xxx.xxx.173
>
>If the first pm2er is assigning .143 through .172, I'm assuming with 30
>ports

Ok.

>and the second is assigning .173 through .190, we only have 8 modems on the
>second
>portmaster. So am I wrong in assuming that the 2nd portmaster is only using
>.173 - .180 which would cover the 8 modems on it? Or since the 2nd

Yes, you are wrong.

The dial pool is always set to cover the number of PORTS that have a network
mode set. The PM can't know if you are actually using them or not. And
the pool always works in order, and doesn't reuse an IP until ALL IPs in the
pool are cycled through.

So if you have 20 ports with a network mode, even with only 8 modems, it
will use 20 IPs.

>portmaster has 20 actual ports
>it could assign .173 - .192 even though .191 and .192 are not usable?

The PM doesn't know they are unusuable. The human has to be sure to set
the assigned pool so ALL IPs it could possibly grab are ok.

-MZ

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