>
> This is my first Portmaster so I'm sure that some of this is just related
> to me not knowing what I'm doing yet :-) but I'd appreciate some help.
> I'm running ComOS 3.5c1.
>
> - I used DNS aliases and IP addresses to specify things like the loghost
> and radius server. When I do show global, everything has been transformed
> from in to the machines real hostnames. I don't think that's a terribly
> good thing to do -- if I put in an alias or an IP it's because that's
> what I wanted :-) Is there a way to fix that?
The Portmaster always stores such things as IP addresses. It converts
them to hostnames for display purposes only.
> - I'm not terribly clear on how "set assigned" works. I've allocated
> 199.84.52.192/26 (a 64 host block). I did a "set assigned 199.84.52.193".
> Does the PM3 just take the first 48 ports starting with 193? How do I get
Yep. This is in the manual.
> the PM3 to broadcast the 199.84.52.192/26 (via OSPF)?
I don't you can. The PM3 adds a host route for each address in use.
> - I don't have the PRI's installed but the PM3 has the following in
> "show ospf links". Note the very odd netmasks...
>
> External Links for All Areas
> Link ID Advertising Router Sequence TOS Ext Age Mask
> --------------- ------------------ ---------- --- --- ---- ----
> 199.84.52.208 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 28
> 199.84.52.224 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 28
> 199.84.52.193 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 32
> 199.84.52.194 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 31
> 199.84.52.196 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 30
> 199.84.52.200 199.84.54.41 0x8000000a No Yes 91 29
>
> I don't know where it's coming up with those.
199.84.54.41 appears to be advertising these routes to the PM3...
> - I set the network range for OSPF area 0.0.0.0 to 199.84.54.32/28, the
> network that the PM3 is on. When I do "show routes", routes are imported
> from OSPF for the whole 199.84.54/24. I assume it shouldn't have done that.
>
> Also, there are lots of networks specified in the backbone area. How do
> I make sure all of them get imported? I tried adding additional networks
> via "set ospf area 0.0.0.0 range X/Y" and they are shown in "show ospf
> areas" but do not appear in my routing table.
>
> Anyway, that's enough fun for one day :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Evan
> --
> Evan Champion * Director, Network Operations
> mailto:evanc@synapse.net * Directeur, Exploitation du reseau
> http://www.synapse.net/ * Synapse Internet
>
>
Tom