[Openvpn-users] Re: --ifconfig-pool-persist as allocation of fixed IPs

[James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Mathias Sundman wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, James Yonan wrote:
> 
> > Change Log:
> >
> > 2005.02.03 -- Version 2.0-rc11
> >
> > * If --ifconfig-pool-persist seconds parameter is 0, treat
> >  persist file as an allocation of fixed IP addresses
> >  (previous versions took IP-to-common-name associations
> >  from this list as hints, not mandatory static allocations).
> 
> So, the IPs listed in this file will now be excluded from the normal 
> ifconfig-pool, so that they will never be assigned to another client, 
> right?

Yes.

> Is the file re-read every time a client connects, so new static 
> allocations can be made without restarting the server?

No, it will only be re-read on SIGHUP.  It's really an initial state 
configuration, not something that's dynamic like --client-config-dir.

It's easier to set up than --client-config-dir and is useful if most of 
your clients can receive a dynamic address, but you want to reserve the 
first few addresses in the pool for specific clients which need to have a 
fixed VPN IP address.

But if you want to be able to assign fixed IP addresses on the fly without 
restarting the server daemon, it's a better idea to use 
--client-config-dir.

James

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