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In message <[email protected]>, Mark Prior writes: >I am trying to rewrite the system that we use to allocate blocks from >our provider blocks to customers. Previously the smallest block we >allocated was a class C and so this process was pretty easy but now I >want to be able to optimally use our allocations and allocate blocks >down to a /30. Does anyone have any ideas, or code, that will manage >multiple CIDR blocks and keep track of the currently unused parts of >the block and given a requirement find an appropriate allocation >(while not fragmenting it like crazy). It would be also useful if it >could collect together POP specific blocks so that, for example, two >parts of the same class C were at the same POP. > >Ideas, suggestions? While I don't know of any existing code offhand (I keep meaning to write something, but never have the time, yada yada), you might want to take a look at RFC 1219 for address allocation. :: Mike ::
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