[cisco-nas] IP Pool usage tracking

jlewis at lewis.org jlewis at lewis.org
Wed Apr 7 19:25:48 EDT 2004


On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Aaron Leonard wrote:

> Dumb question ... why not use DHCP or RADIUS to assign the addresses?
> This would give you a centralized view of the address usage and would
> allow you to avoid preallocating address chunks for sparsely populated
> NASes.

Cleaner routing.  I'd much rather assign sufficient IP space to each
access server and have it announce a few aggregate routes than randomly
assign IPs via RADIUS and have hundreds of /32 routes per box.

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