Re: Fixed IP per port ? (fwd)

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@common.net)
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:33:59 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time Cristian Gafton shaped the electrons to say...
> >etc. Is that hard to have a flag to disable this feature ?
>
> Yes. It would require a complete change to the IP assignment code.
>
> There just isn't enough demand to make this a priority when there are
> so many other things to do.

Well, others have piped up about this, so I may as well too...I find
having a fixed IP for a port extremely useful, particularly for
administrivia. Consider this another formal request for the feature. :-)
Even if it's an all-or-nothing feature (i.e. either you assign each port
an IP address by hand, or you do dynamic allocation, no middle ground),
I'm happy.

Btw, someone mentioned some hacks to radiusd to allow this; anyone have a
pointer to them that can be applied to 2.0? And anyone have comments about
other radius servers out there in terms of features (i.e. Merit's, etc)?

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