Same size assignment from Reservation.

[Bjorn-H]

Hi,

We have quite a large setup with IP-addresses and is building our own web front end that suits our need, and have converted NIPAP to be python3 only. (everything except the webpage). Which seems to be in the works here as well, which is good.

What we have encountered is that we have delegated a bunch of prefixes for a certain purpose and during migration of the data to NIPAP, some prefixes that have been delegated is directly assigned with the whole prefix.

The assigned prefix should reside within a pool and if it released it should then it should become in reservation status and then start to be used for other tasks.

So what we are after is the possibility to assign a whole network from the same sized reservation. (using 10.0.0.0/24 below as an example)

Prefix                      Type              Pool                 Description
10.0.0.0/24                  R                pool1
   10.0.0.0/24               A                                     Used by DC1
10.2.2.0/23                  R                pool1
   10.2.2.0/24               A                                     Used by DC2
   10.2.3.0/25               A                                     Used by DC1
...

This will also make it look more pretty when listing the prefixes.

Personally I think this is a missed or overlooked feature in NIPAP.