Re: Fixed IP per port ? (fwd)

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:03:46 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Edward S. Marshall wrote:

> 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 don't see why it would "require a total redesign of the IP address
assignment code". Just create a new variable for each port that holds the
assigned address. When it comes time for the PM to pick an address for
the slip/ppp session, it checks this variable, and if set uses that
address, otherwise continues on to the IP address pool as it currently
does.

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