Re: Assigned IP addresses

Tony Ching-Tung Wu (tonywu@keelung.transend.com.tw)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:55:41 +0800 (CST)

The end of the IP pool is determined automatically by the PM according
the to number of ports it has.

Tony.

On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Jason Fiset wrote:

>
> Is there any way to set the end of the IP pool for dynamic allocation? I
> don't remember seeing how to set this in any of the manuals I got. I
> only have instructions on how to set the start of the assigned pool by
> using set assigned <IP_address>
>
>
> --
> Jason Fiset
> System Manager - Mountain Internet
> email: jfiset@mountain-inter.net
> web: http://www.mountain-inter.net/~jfiset
>
> On 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
> >
>