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Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20


From: mike harrison <meuon () highertech net>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:07:30 -0400 (EDT)


John said:
Well, you could acquire a company that already has one. :)

That has been the suggestion from several people. 
I've even considered it, especially when one of my local
competitors has a /18, and they are much smaller than we are.
We 'NAT' an incredible amount of dial-up and commercial customers
to reduce our need for public IP's, and trends thankfully went to
customers WANTING to be NAT'd and Proxied for 'firewall' reasons, 
with only a few public IP's. 

It seems a poor reasons for acquiring a company, as they
really do not "own" the address space. --Mike--









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