Re: dynamically assigned IP numbers
Jeff Mcadams (jeffm@iglou.com)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
>Unfortunately, Livingston's dynamic IP address allocation doesn't allocate
>IP addresses based upon the port. It simply allocates an IP address from
>the starting point (set assigned) and counts upwards, then loops back
>to the beginning.
>
>It would be nice if the IP addresses corresponded with a given port
>on a portmaster, makes it easy to troubleshoot users problems too.
>
>(traceroute for instance would be much more meaningful)
Indeed, that is quite true, but it would be trivial to set up would it
not? Maybe a bit tedious if you had a large number of ports, but you
could just go through and specify an IP number for each port. That
would accomplish what you wanted, no?
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