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The need for static IP comes from them wanting to run their own web-server. At 11:58 AM 11/7/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote: >Brandon Ross wrote: > >> > I don't think arin would object to you giving out static ip's to >> > those of your users who specifically requst this service. ARIN >> > will object if you want to assign a static ip every win95 Dialup >> > person who justs uses the net to surf and check his mail. >> >> Unless you are @home who they have permitted to assign all of their users >> static IPs. > >I wonder if @home has sufficiently proven that it is necessary to actually >give out static IPs to cable modem subscribers. Considering that DHCP is >there, I would have my doubts. > >Regardless of how the market gets sliced up to little providers or going >all to a few big ones, issuing static IPs one to a household in North >America alone is going to eat a huge chunk of address space by the time >the world is all wired up. There better have been some kind of requirement >that the space they got can be static for now, but has to become dynamic >in the future as they expand, such as by getting no more space until they >show that the peak number of addresses in concurrent use warrants the >increase. > >Once concern I have with so many static IPs in use is how do they grow >their network and keep the routes aggregated? If one area has a /24 and >grows to need more, do you give it an arbitrary 2nd /24 or make it a /23? >Are there going to be hundreds of small announcements from them or just >a few or one? At least with dynamic (e.g. DHCP) you can renumber a whole >area relatively easily and keep it aggregated. > >-- > -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- > -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- > -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- > -- *-----------------------------* philh at intur.net * -- > ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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