-- Jason Fiset System Manager - Mountain Internet email: jfiset@mountain-inter.net web: http://www.mountain-inter.net/~jfisetOn Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Brian Elfert wrote:
> > > On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Jason Fiset wrote: > > > 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 supposed to do this. > > > 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? > > It will keep assigning the next available address until it gets to the > end of the assigned block, and then will go back to the beginning of the > pool. > > Part of the reason this is done is so if someone gets disconnected, and > calls right back without exiting something like Trumpet, they can get the > same IP address again. If the address is available, the PM will give it > to them, otherwise they get the next address ion the pool like normal. > > Brian >