Setting assigned addresses further apart than 30 #'s (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:18:41 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Mark R. Baker shaped the electrons to say...
>I was recently told by a Liv tech that on LANs with multiple PMs and no

I'd like to know who it was so I can get this corrected.

>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.

Dead wrong. This is not a problem. You can hang up and immediately that IP
is available. In the time the port takes to reset to be able to answer
another call the IP is already in the pool.

-MZ

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