IP Allocation

[rad]

I work at a small ISP. We've obtained a block of IPs and want to allocate IPs out to new high speed customer's efficiently. Is there a program out there that automates that? Something that would take out the human error so as to allocate as efficently as possible.

 

[wybnormal]

I'm not sure if you want to automate the handing out of staic Ips or you want them dynamicly. If dynamic, then there are several ways to do this. I would recommend investigating one of the commerical IP management programs in order to get the various reports and trending.

One I'm somewhat familier with is QIP.

http://www.qip.lucent.com/

Mike S
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin

 

[rad]

That's what I'm looking for,

Thanks

 

[ghostrider3]

if you using winNT server then you can use DHCP to do the job for you.

 

[wybnormal]

Ghost-

MS DHCP is weak at best and for a production network with paying customers, I would not use it. The QIP I recommended is an industrial strength DHCP which provides a good many things like concurrent running DHCP servers for hot standby, SQL database of all IPs, report generation, automatic address recovery and so on. It's NOT for the small office network, maybe for a medium network and in my opinion something like QIP is a requirement for stable DHCP in a large enterprise network.

Everyone will have a different opinion and this is just my opinion ;-) doest mean it's a stone cold fact.

Mike S
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin

 

[Guest_imported]

wybnormal, sure you're not being paid by Lucent??
You can use any Linux DHCP server, and it'll do the job.

 

[wybnormal]

LOL!! I wish I were ;-) I'm in a shop where Linux is a dirty word( contary to my personal beliefs) But as good as Linux is, you do not get the SQL database/report structures that a large enterprise can use. In the MS world I current live in, the idea of having a couple of hot running *spare* DHCP servers is mightly appealing to the sysadmins, hence the QIP. Please keep in mind that we have over 5,000 nodes on DHCP and it can get a tad messy at times. QIP does more then just DHCP and thats called IP Management and I have found it to be very useful.

As far servers go, I could *IF* I wanted to run the DHCP off a few of my Ciscos and get away with it. I have actually done this for some small remote sites that I can not justify a server or passing broadcast traffic over a ISDN link.

Mike S
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin