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RE: (ASCEND) IP Addresses needed for 4048



It rotates through the pool.

Phil's arguments work VERY well here (been using pool summary and /26 nets
for
a while here.

Larry Rosenman

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com
[mailto:owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Jim Howard
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:04 AM
To: ascend-users@bungi.com
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) IP Addresses needed for 4048


At 09:18 1998/03/31 -0500, Phillip Vandry wrote:
>> Why give more than 48 addresses. It only has 2 T-1's available so at a
>> max that's 48 connections.

>- If you have more addresses than channels, then even if all your
>channels are constantly used, addresses get to have a little "rest"
>between uses. This means that if the previous user logged off
>uncleanly, possibly leaving some TCP connections open or otherwise

Does the system actually rotate through the pool like this?
I had always assumed that it took the first available
starting at lowest address and working up...

-Jim H

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