Steel-Belted Radius Carrier 7.2.x Installaion Guide > Basic SBR Carrier Configuration > Setting Up IP Address Pools

Setting Up IP Address Pools

Set up IP address pools for the SSR database from a cluster management node now.

All the same basic concepts discussed in Chapter 10, Administering Address Pools of Steel-Belted Radius Carrier 7.2 Administration and Configuration Guide apply to address pools maintained in the SSR database, but the SBR Administrator tool is not used to maintain the pools the SSR database.

In the SSR cluster, you set up and administer IP pools using a set of scripts discussed in Chapter 33, Session State Register Administration of the Steel-Belted Radius Carrier 7.2 Administration and Configuration Guide.

BEST PRACTICE: We recommend that each SBR Carrier node have its own emergency IP address range, a local pool of addresses that is not shared. If a failover situation takes the shared IP address pool offline, each SBR Carrier node can still function by defining and allocating addresses from its emergency pool. Make sure addresses in the emergency pool are not in the same range of addresses used by the shared SSR IP address pools.