[cisco-nas] IP Pool usage tracking

[jlewis at lewis.org]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dave Lechlitner wrote:

> We have numerous NAS's (6400s, 5400s, 6100s) where we utilize the "IP
> LOCAL POOL" commands to hand out IP addresses to our customers.  We've
> have found it difficult to track IP pool space availability so we can
> catch when we are about to run out of IP space before we need to add
> more.
>
> Anyone came up with a simple solution for this one already?

The simple solution (at least for the dial-up gear) is to size your pool
based on the number of B channels the box accomodates.  For DSL agg, you'd
have to keep an eye on number of sessions or better, the number of free
IPs in the pool (is that available via SNMP?).

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