Setting assigned addresses further apart than 30 #'s

Mark R. Baker (mark@solunet.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:33:00 -0500

I was recently told by a Liv tech that on LANs with multiple PMs and no
subnetting to set the assigned addresses further apart than 30 (for a
pm2e30). His reasoning was that if all 30 lines are being used, and, say 10
users hang up at roughly the same time and 10 more connect, the IPs from the
10 that hang up may not be returned to the pool in time for the 10 new users
to use and the PM may assign addresses above the original 30 in the pool.
This is in regards to 3.3.3
Seemed wrong to me, but I want to be sure.
Comments?

Thanx,

mark

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