I will give you a small bit of advice that I learned the hard way. I originally had my ip pools in big blocks for easy management, but I found when I had to do some reconfiguration of cards in the chassis that I did not have enough IP's to say pull a card from one chassis and move it to another. I had to delete big blocks of IP's which left me more trunks than IP's. I had to do this during an off peak period. I had to wait for all the IP's to free up while hoping that the number of callers would not be greater than the number of available IP's. I have since made a max pool of 24 IP's. If I pull a card, I can easily delete a pool without leaving myself with more trunks than available IP's. If you have a full chassis then this may not be as necessary.
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From: usr-tc-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:usr-tc-admin@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of VCI Help Desk
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:58 PM
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Subject: [USR-TC] TC ip pools

    Hi,
 
    I've got 4 fully loaded TCs I need to setup and I'm questioning what is the best way to set the IP pools. If I evenly split the DSP cards so I have 7 DSPs assigned to each ARC card I'll need 161 (23 x 7) addresses on each ARC. I've looked at my subnet tables and can't find anything that fits nicely. I have enough IP addresses available, I'm not sure what is the best way to split the addresses onto the TCs.
 
    Does anyone have a suggestion?

      Bill Dunn