Re: Assigned IP addresses
Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:14:12 -0500
Jason Fiset wrote:
>
> I have set up the portmaster to assign IP addresses dynamically.
>
> I issued the following command:
>
> set address <ip start of pool>
>
> Unfortunately, the IP address keeps incrementing on the portmaster
> everytime I log in. I'm the only one using the portmaster right now so
> it's not because of concurrent logins. Any idea why this is happening?
> Is it supposed to do this? I thought that once I logged off, it would
> put the IP address back into the available pool and the next time I would
> log in, I would get the same IP address. Maybe it keeps going till it
> hits the assigned IP address + 30 and then starts back at the start of
> the block?
Thats what mine does, it works OK, and I personally think its better this way (always a new IP
address, no matter what). I have a 10 port with about 200 calls per day. The ones I have a
static IP for work properly.
> I have a 30 port PM-2E.
I have a 10 port PM-2ER.