> >Are you sure you have the assigned pool set at the start of a subnet?
> >AND you've manually set the pool to have 32 IPs and not 30?
> >
> >-MZ
>
> Ah, that is it! I had not explicitly set my pool sized to 32, they were
> effectively 32 due to the subnet structure I was using, but that is not
> good enough.
>
> For anyone else following this, under 'show global' you should see a line
> like:
> Assigned Address: 208.198.63.0 (Pool Size 32)
Question: I've always used set assigned 208.198.63.1 (e.g. started with
the first *usable* IP address in a subnet...not the subnet "boundary" IP).
My reading of the Command Line Administrators Guide also leads me to
believe that I should use 208.198.63.1
And from the ComOS 3.5 Release Notes:
The PortMaster allocates a pool of IP addresses *starting at the
Assigned Address base value* (set from the global menu or by the
"set assigned" command) and counting up. (emphasis added)
[SNIP]
In Release 3.5 the size of the pool can also be set explicitly
with the "set pool Number" command, where Number will be the
number of IP addresses allocated to the pool.
So, *my* interpretation of the above is that if I set assigned to
208.198.63.0 with a pool-size of 32, then the Portmaster will assign
ALL the IP's from 208.198.63.0 - 208.198.63.31 inclusive. Wouldn't this
cause a routing problem? (if not for OSPF, then for RIP?)
--> > for which the necessary commands are: > set assigned 208.198.63.0 > set pool 32 > > Randy "Wow, watch those routing tables shrink" Moore
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