Re: (PM) Setting a "static" IP address to each modem?

Chen Shiyuan (csy@hjc.edu.sg)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:35:27 +0800 (SGT)

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, NOT a LE employee wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Chen Shiyuan wrote:
>
> > Hmm... your method is very interesting EXCEPT that if I have over 120
> > modems, I will end up giving my self one hell of a time.
>
> HUH? 120 is easy! script it! ;)
>
> or take 10 minutes of making one and copy and paste it another 119 times
> and change the ip address...
>
> > On the other hand, the reason why I want to do such a thing is because I
> > want to have a better "auditing" of the modems so that I know that all
> > users with a particular IP had used this modem before.
>
> ?? particular modem? you do realize that S1 does not equate to M1 as
> modems on the PM3 are dynamically assigned.

Really? Oops... I think I'm sounding idiotic, but I always thought they
are the same.

I'm actually currently using one for evaluation...

> Perhaps instead of tying an IP address per port/modem you should ask how
> you can better 'audit' usage. In other words, explain what type of
> auditing you want/need, so that a better solution may be found for your
> purposes.

Okay, let me put it this way, what I'm thinking of :-

I would like to be able to reference each digital modem with an address so
that I can easily identify which users have used that digital modem before
and if some funny problems occur, I can easily trace out if there is a
fault with the modem or something else.

Also, for easy identification, I would like to be able to know how many
modems are currently used via the IP addressess used, i.e. if I see users
coming in with IP 1.1.1.50, I would know that around 50 modems are used
already. I don't want to do a telnet to the pm3 and do a show sessions or
whatever...

Any idea how I can achieve these two things?

Thanks again!

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