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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Efficient (Dense) Use of Address Blocks
with ciscos ;you can use subnets all ones and all zeroes. So in fact you can use 2 subnmets in one class C with the 'bad' mask 255.255.128.0 . Maybe the other vendors should do that too, it is a question of customer pressure. Explain why you need it and why it is possible without creating chaos, and the vendor will certainly do it (Cisco did for al lones, e.g.) Mike On Mon, 20 Mar 1995, Karl Denninger wrote: > > Karl wrote: > > > > My request was for 256 Class "C"s. We have consumed almost > > > > exactly that in a year. > > > > And Alan added: > > > I did the same. [...] Interpath has > > > not *QUITE* used up the block, but pretty darn close > > > > Can either of you provide estimates of how densely these blocks > > are populated? What percentage of the individual host addresses > > are currently used by functioning hosts (or router interfaces)? > > In some cases, 99%. Really. We hand out single addresses and route them in > many cases, and those addresses get used until they're gone -- all of them, > except for all zeros and all ones. > > Some blocks are less densely populated. If I subnet to 26 bits then 1/2 of > that Class "C" is wasted, which I can't control due to the technical > requirements of the network involved. > > > Perhaps you're both saying you re-assigned use of these address > > blocks quickly, rather than saying you populated them densely > > with actual hosts? > > Uh, no. We populated them as densely as reasonably possible given the > requirements of our customers and our own internal engineering allows. > We have spent a hell of a lot of money, and made a number of purchasing > decisions, based on whether or not certain products could or could not do > VLSMs and the like, and whether they could handle host routes. All in the > name of not wasting address space. > > > One could imagine ISPs (not Karl or Alan, surely!) who might > > re-assign blocks of class C (octet-wide) networks when a single > > one would suffice. Or they might assign octet-wide networks when > > quartet-wide (nibble) networks would suffice; or even quartet-wide > > networks when triplet-wide networks would suffice. > > Until there is a solution for in-addr.arpa quartet-wide or triplet-wide > network assignments to individual customers who want to run their own DNS > (and many do for VERY good reasons) is damn close to impossible. This is a > technical problem which has not been solved in the DNS system for a long > time, and it stinks, but its a reality of life right now. > > If and when it is fixed we'll adjust our allocation policies to match the > new reality of the world. Until then we have to live with the reality as it > sits. > > You want to know what would, more than anything else, help the address space > issue? Solving the in-addr.arpa problem. Solve that one and I can reduce a > number of my customer allocations, and so can all the other providers. That > could, I would estimate, cut the growth rate of address requests at least in > half. > > > I believe ISPs who receive large blocks have a responsibility to > > make sure they (and their customers) use them efficiently. How > > efficiently, you ask? If you're not getting more than one U.S. > > dollar of value per host address per year, you're not using it > > efficiently in my book! > > -- > > Sean Shapira [email protected] +1 206 443 2028 > > <a href="http://www.jazzie.com/sds/";>Sean's Home Page</a> > > Serving the Net since 1990. > > We're getting significantly more than one US dollar of revenue per host > address per year from our allocations. In much of our address space we're > exceeding that metric by more than two orders of magnitude. > > -- > -- > Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity > Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | (shell, PPP, SLIP, leased) in Chicagoland > Voice: [+1 312 248-8649] | 6 POPs online through Chicago, all 28.8 > Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "[email protected]" for more information > ISDN: Surf at Smokin' Speed | WWW: http://www.mcs.net, gopher: gopher.mcs.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael F. Nittmann [email protected] Network Architect B3 Corporation (715) 387 1700 xt. 158 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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