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Framed-IP pools

Framed-IP pools live in the pool view. A new pool is created live on commit, and an existing pool can be grown live.

Live-grow semantics

Re-issuing range on an existing pool with the same start and gateway and a larger end is a pure grow: the extra addresses become allocatable immediately on commit, with no restart and no disturbance to bound subscribers. Any other change — smaller end, moved start, changed gateway — applies on restart, because a live reshape would orphan active allocations.

cli
pool default range 100.64.10.10 100.64.10.250 gateway 100.64.10.1 prefix 24
pool default next overflow-pool
commit
show pool                       # used/size

Overlap caution

When two pools’ ranges overlap, an address is owned by whichever pool actually allocated it — the daemon frees it back to the owning pool, not the first range match. Avoid deliberately overlapping ranges. If show pool reports used standing above the live session count while idle, that is the signal to investigate.