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Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
From: Kevin Loch <kloch () opnsys com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:31:24 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:01 EDT, shsu () HydroOne com said:Hi, is there a standard or a practice on how much IP addresses an ISP should provide to his/her client given that this client has bought only 2Mb of bandwidth and this client is an ISP?Umm.. don't bother. Let's think this through. 2Mbits/sec of bandwidth will only sustain about 40 56KB modems doing a simultaneous download. Even adding in think time and the like, a /24 should be plenty wide enough.
Of course bandwidth != subnet mask. He should give them whatever IP's they demonstrate a need for in the next three months. Determining and justifying that need has nothing to do with how over (or under) subscribed their bandwidth is. If they are in fact only selling dialup (not leased lines, not web hosting), you might ask how many pops(locations) they plan to have right away, modems/pop, space reserved for internal devices (email/corporate lan) and links. You could easially justify a couple of /24's with a couple locations and IP's for all the new PC's in the marketing dept. KL
Current thread:
- standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses shsu (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Nick Thompson (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Christopher A. Woodfield (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Jim Mercer (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Bruce Robertson (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Kevin Loch (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses up (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Josh Richards (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 12)
- RE: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses John Crain (Jun 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Martin, Christian (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Austin Schutz (Jun 15)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses up (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Charles Scott (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Christopher A. Woodfield (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Charles Scott (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Austin Schutz (Jun 15)