On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alan DeKok wrote:

> Norbert Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've  got the dynmaic ippool handling working.
> > Looking at the source code, it seems to me, that ipaddresses are freed,
> > when an Accounting-Stop record comes along.
> > As those records arrive via udp (true??) some might be lost and the
> > associated addresses will never be freed.
> > Is this true?
>
>   Sort of.  The UDP packets may be lost, but the NAS *should* re-send
> them.  If it doesn't, it's broken.
>
> > If so: how can those addresses be set to unused during normal
> > operations?
>
>   Use a non-broken NAS.
>
>   Hmm... the module SHOULD handle the case where a stop is lost
> completely (rare, but possible) and a new start packet comes in for
> the same port.  I haven't looked at the source to see if/how it does
> this, though.

If an Access-Request comes in for a port that has already an assigned ip that ip
is freed.

>
> > The module ippool is declared experimental. Does anyone have real
> > experience with it?
>
>   I'm not using it, but a lot of other people are.  If there are no
> objections, it should be declared 'stable' before the next release.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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