Re: OSPF and Assigned Address Pool

Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)
Wed, 14 May 1997 12:27:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Stephen Zedalis wrote:

: >for PM2-30s - Start the first at .2 and the rest on the boundaries (.32 .64
: >etc) and 'set pool-size 32'
:
: Excuse me, if you do this you will have 2 portmasters with overlapping IP
: assignments and you will NOT have the minimum number of routes. If you
: want even /27 assignments, you have to start the first at .0, otherwise
: the first portmaster will have addresses .2 - .33 which will overlap with
: the second portmaster. (It will not stop at 30 addresses but will
: eventually assign the higher IP numbers as people logon and off, this is
: just how the pool works)

The pool hasn't worked this way in ages (didn't this disappear somewhere
around 3.1.x?). On a PM2e30, the size of the pool is 30, period. (So you
could conceivably static route a /27 to it and start on .1 ... like we do,
where OSPF doesn't seem to quite work right.)

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