Re: dynamically assigned IP numbers

Garry Shtern (shterng@buster.law.nyu.edu)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:13:56 +1030 (???)

> >
> > I am sorry... There is one question that keeps coming up in my
> > mind, since I am in the midst of setting up my own portmaster. And that
> > is, what exactly will portmaster do as far as IP's are concerned.. Lets
> > say you assign addresses to it starting from 1.1.1.101.. What exactly
> > happens, lets say you have a 30 port portmaster.. will it start assigning
> > ips, and then when it gets to 1.1.1.130, will it start from the
> > beginning, or will it go on to 1.1.1.131.. and if this is so, how do you
> > stop it from doing this...
> >
>
>
> I believe that it will go through the whole range of numbers, starting at
> what you defined it as, to .255 as that is the upper limit of IPs.
>

If thats the case, is there anyway to change this?

Also another question.. might sound very stupid, but still.. the new
release of comos came out, I have to go to pmconsole and install it, if I
want to.. here is a question, will it destroy all the information that is
already in the router, as far as routing goes?

thanks
Garry