Re: Dynamically Assigning IP Addresses

Dave Stewart (library@dbscom.com)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:39:22 -0400

At 08:12 AM 9/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>The manual says that the value of the Assigned Address parameter is the
first address in the sequence of addresses available for temporary assignment.

This is true...

The beginning number is determined by: set assigned <beginning IP>

For example, one of ours is: set assigned 206.155.128.100

>How does it know where to stop. My PM2E keeps incrementing addresses and
now has started on the next Class C, one that is not even in use on this
network!

That's strange... ours goes up to 129 and starts over. 30 ports, 30
addresses available.

On sites where we have 2 PM2ER, the second PM is set to start assigning
messages at 130... and when I add a third, it'll be 160... etc, etc.

>I know this is probably a dumb question but we have just started using this
feature and the manual is not much help.

The only dumb question is the one not asked.