Re: dynamically assigned IP numbers

Steve Davies (steve@iafrica.com)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:59:35 +0200 (GMT+0200)

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Jeff Mcadams wrote:

> >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.

The big advantage of the way ComOS does dynamic IP: I understand that it
will try to give a caller the same IP address that they had "last time".
This is very nice if your line drops.

Livingston: does this work if you use Radius too?

Steve Davies
Internet Africa