[cisco-nas] IP Pool usage tracking

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:25:48PM -0400, jlewis at lewis.org 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.

Full ACK.  That's the way we do it on our main dialup/LNS boxes as well -
somewhere between a /25 to a couple of /24s, and no more specifics in IGP.

gert
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