Re: OSPF and Assigned Address Pool (fwd)

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Mon, 12 May 1997 19:38:24 -0600 (MDT)

I feel that it is a very useful feature. It will let you start and end
portmaster dial-up pools right next to eachother instead of on equal
blocks (like /26's which are 62 addresses each - not good usage for a PM3
with 48 modems!).

And it will announce the exact number of routes wether you have 10, 20, or
30 ports on a PM2.

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Evan Champion wrote:

> MegaZone wrote:
> > It has an algorithm for determining the least number of routes needed to
> > cover the pool. Personally I think that's pretty slick...
>
> On the other hand, it's kind of shocking to go look at your router's
> routing table to find that it's filled with routes with bizarre
> netmasks. I couldn't figure out what it was doing, and it took some
> brainstorming with Livingston tech support before we figured it out (at
> the time, they didn't know that's what it was doing either).
>
> Considering that the addresss space is probably wasted anyway and the
> confusion it can cause, I'm not sure how useful it really is.