(PM) static IP users (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:59:54 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Hal Dorsman shaped the electrons to say...
>that makes sense. But can you, if you have a PM3 with a 48 IP pool,
>define
>a .192 masked subnet (62 hosts), route that to your PM3, and use the
>statics
>in the range outside of the pool but in that subnet. If that is the

Sure. The only issue is NOT to use IPs *in the pool* since the PM will
assign them and you get conflicts. Any other IP (that is a valid IP) is
fine.

>how do you handle a bank of PM3's, when you don't know for sure where
>static IP user will dial into? At busy times, they may roll over into

Then you run OSPF.

-MZ

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