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Redback and IP Address -Reply

From: Steven Jones <StevenJ_at_ghw.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:34:48 +1200
Message-Id: <s740377a.081@ghw.co.nz>

>>> Kit Mitchell <kit@hypostasis.com> 17/May/1999 03:07pm >>>
Hi
>From http://www.redback.com/solutions/wp_redback.asp
>When an end user begins a session with
>a specific user ID in the form of
>"user_ID@domain_name.com" the RADIUS
>database automatically binds that
>profile request to the appropriate
>access router. The configuration of
>each context is dependent upon the
>RADIUS profile invoked when the end
>user logs in.
Anyone able to comment on how this might interact with DHCP or
_prevent_ fixed IPs which is what I though had been more or less
stated ?

Um, we get technical here (I may not have heard correctly), we went
through this on friday night, if I understood Mark Barlow correctly,
effectively we have static IPs as the redback holds the details in a
database, on a 'normal' fall over of the red back when it reboots we
regain our 'static' IPs from the database, its only on a serious crash that
the redback may have a corrupted database that is unusable so we
would get a new IP, effectively our dynamic IPs are static in all but name,
at least at present.

The reason we cannot get true static Ips at present is the redback is a
new company and their software/hardware is still young, later true static
may well be possible as the software matures and features are added.
Mark said he turns his adsl off at the help desk every night and always
regains his 'static' IP.

Hope Ive written accurately

Thing

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Received on Mon May 17 15:34:48 1999


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