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> As far as .0 and .255 addresses go, I'm no more "asking for trouble" by > using those than I'm asking for trouble by running an IRC server. They > are completely valid addresses. Perhaps those making such comments are > better at getting IP space than we are, but we need to squeeze every IP we > possibly can into use just to provide enough addresses to our customers. Not to make this note a total flame ... but are you really honestly trying to say that ARIN won't give you more addresses if you don't use .0 and .255 addresses on all /23 and larger prefixes? Out of all the /17-/23 prefixes out there on the net, what percentage would people say are truely used on a network in "classful supernet" configurations. Out of that percentage, what percent of those are in such a dire situation with their past network allocation history that their future allocations depend on actually allocating and using, in a production environment, 510 addresses out of a /23 instead of a mere 508? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Andrew W. Smith ** [email protected] ** Chief Network Engineer ** ** http://www.neosoft.com/neosoft/staff/andrew ** 1-888-NEOSOFT ** ** "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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