Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

[Dave Siegel <dsiegel () rtd com>]

> > As many as it takes, This is just something you are going to need to deal 
> > with. We started with small blocks and had to renumber several times so 
> > far. It is just part of growing, until you are a large NSP connected to 
> > all the NAPs you will just need to start will small blocks and renumber 
> > over and over until you get /18 or smaller.
>
>   This strikes me as being discriminatory against the smaller ISPs. The
> customers are looking for stability and, from their point of view, being
> forced to renumber several times along with the ISP is unstable and costly.
> They'll look to ISPs who will not force them to renumber, the ones with a
> /18 or smaller already.
>
>   Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> problem for the smaller ISPs?
>
> -David [Kovar]

If the ISP is stupid, then yes, they will be in a bad position.  

If they are smarter than their competition, they will help their customers
bring up their networks intelligently such that there are as few static
addresses used as possible, and the rest is all DHCP magic.  They will
work with their customers to find easier ways to renumber networks, and in
turn, those larger customers will bang on their product vendors to better
support dynamic addressing needs.

It's not difficult to do, it just takes an understanding of what's going
on out there, and a committment to follow through.

Dave

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Dave Siegel                  Sr. Network Engineer, RTD Systems & Networking
(520)623-9663                Network Consultant -- Regional/National NSPs
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