Re: IP address space management

[Brandon Ross <bross () mindspring net>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Brian Dickson wrote:

> > > We are in need of a software package to manage our IP space.  We've looked at
> > > several products on the market but haven't found anything that really suits
> > > an ISP's needs very well.  Does anyone know of anything on the market that
> > > works well?  It should understand CIDR and be hierarchical.
>
> I guess the question would be, what is meant by hierarchical... do you mean
> assigning sub-CIDR blocks to customers, and then managing customers' space
> as well as your own?

Something like that.  We have a need to assign perhaps a large block to
web hosting, then out of that block assign smaller blocks to each server,
then yet a smaller block still to each customer, for example.

 CIDR and VLSM goes without saying...

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