On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:00:59AM +0100, Guy Vegoda wrote:
-> searching of unassigned space using a combined exact-fit/first-fit strategy.
Please expand on this.
The tool will accept a number for the count of IP addresses to be assigned and search for a suitably aligned assignment. Obviously you will end with holes in your allocation whenever an assignment is returned. There are various alogrithms (coming by memory or disk space allocators) that try to get 'optimal' results by filling the holes. This tool does a two phase search, first it looks for assignments that fill holes completely and then it falls back and searches the first hole in the allocation that is large enough.
I don't want an end product that decides for you which subnet you will be assigning.
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