Hello Skeeve -
The short answer is to use static addresses for long-held connections. By definition, dynamic addresses are designed for frequent re-use. regards Hugh On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 11:50 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > > > Question > > We currently have a pool of 64 IP's stored in a database, and when a > user connects AND they don't have a static IP they get assigned one > from > the database of dynamic IP's... > > The problem I have is that the pool has the Lease Period set to 24 > hours > after 24 hours the dynamic IP is reclaimed... which is all good.. > > But what if the user was dedicated and did not disconnect after 24 > hours. > The IP still gets reclaimed.. and can be assigned by the database to a > new connection even though the user is still using it.. > > If I set it to have no Lease or a Lease longer than, lets say a week > and > the user has no stop record, then I risk not getting the IP back for a > while if not at all... and the pool can fill. > > Any Thoughts.... > > > _______________________________________________________ > Skeeve Stevens, RHCE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: www.skeeve.org - Telephone: (0414) 753 383 > Address: P.O Box 1035, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia > > eIntellego - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.eintellego.net > _______________________________________________________ > Si vis pacem, para bellum > > > === > Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with > 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. > > -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
