Setting the Assigned Address Pool
IP Addresses can be assigned dynamically to network dial-in users who use PPP or SLIP to access the network. By assigning addresses as needed from a pool, the PortMaster requires fewer addresses than if users had their own address. Once a connection is closed, the address is returned to the pool for reuse.
To use IP address pooling, you explicitly identify the first address in the sequence of addresses available for temporary assignment. The PortMaster allocates one address in the pool for each port configured for network dial-in. Setting the base address to 0.0.0.0 disables pooling.
The assigned pool size is a number from 0 to 64 IP addresses in the address pool. A 0 pool size prevents any IP address assignments from the pool.