The IP Pool Manager (on the IP Pool Mgr tab) is used to define the address pools used for dynamic IP address allocation and the methods used to select and form the addresses that are allocated. It is available in the AAA Server Node and DHCP Server Node test cases.
In general, using the IP Pool Manager consists of the following steps:
Gather the address pool information:
Before you define the address pools, you will need to know:
The starting IP address for each pool
The number of addresses in each pool
Prefix lengths for IPv6 address pools or masks for IPv4 address pools
To define the pool selection method:
When a IP address allocation request is received, the address pool from which an address is selected may be specified in the request message. If you have defined more than one address pool and a specific pool is not requested, a pool is chosen according to the default method that you define with Pool Selection Cycle Method...
Enter the Starting Pool Ip Address..., including the prefix length if the pool contains IPv6 addresses. Although a mask is not mandatory with IPv4 address pools, if it is omitted a 255.255.255.255 mask will be returned to the requester.
If the pool contains IPv6 addresses, you can select either the Prefix or Interface-ID as the Incrementing Portion of Address...
Enter the Number of Addresses in Pool...
Select the order that will be used when allocating addresses from the pool with Queue Type...
If you are defining more than one address pool and will allow clients to request a specific address pool, enter a Pool Identifier... that will be compared to the value in the request message.
In a DHCP test, Alternate Pool Identifier... can be used for pool selection when the requests are received from a relay agent and a Lease Time... can be defined for each pool.
At least one address pool must be defined and you can define up to 30 pools.
Check the Pool n... box to add the next address pool and the pool's parameters are enabled.