Re: (PM) set assigned command on PM3 (fwd)

John W Baxter (jwblist@olympus.net)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:53:32 -0700

At 3:41 -0700 4/17/99, MegaZone wrote:
>Once upon a time Christian Schmit shaped the electrons to say...
>>Must the portmaster be rebooted when changing
>>the pool of assigned IP addresses with the
>>"set assigned" command or will it be changed
>>on the fly?
>
>As I recall:
>Changing the pool start point - reboot
>Shrinking the pool - reboot
>Enlarging the pool - don't need to reboot

Some time ago, not knowing the above, I successfully shifted a PM2E "up"
two addresses without rebooting. It had been starting at ....30 for some
reason; I moved it to ....32. (Not for OSPF reasons, but because I thought
I might someday want to treat 1..31 specially.) On this machine, the pool
size was not set.

I watched what it did: it quickly used the two "new" IPs at the top of the
pool; it never again used ...30 or ...31 (I made the change when neither
30 nor 31 was in use, which may well have helped.)

This was a now-archaic ComOS version (then-archaic, for that matter)...I
have not tried this trick with 3.7.2.

--John

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