[Vpn-help] Cisco 6.3 Howto on www.shrew.net - Question

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Wed Mar 18 23:46:14 CDT 2009


Stefan Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as stated on the webpage:
> 
> http://shrew.net/support/wiki/HowtoCiscoPix
> 
> Address Pool
> 
> The IP address pool must be configured. Clients will be assigned
> private network addresses from a class C pool of 172.18.0.0/24.
> 
> ip local pool clientpool 172.18.0.2-172.18.0.11 mask 255.255.255.0
> 
> ---
> 
> My Cisco Pix 501 FW 6.3 dont accept a mask option. so
> 
> ip local pool clientpool 172.18.0.2-172.18.0.11 works. Is this a
> general problem or just missing in my firmware? Does it make sense
> anyway?
> 

Hi Stefan,

This just sounds like a pix firmware difference. The important thing is 
that the pool gets created and an address is assigned to the client. I 
appreciate you posting the information in case someone else is presented 
with the same issue.

Thanks again,

-Matthew



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