North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP Allocations
Hey Mark, Your rules of thumb are a little bizarre. Check rfc2050 -- and yes, you _should_ care :) Joe On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 05:47:45PM -0400, Mark Cobb wrote: > I have a question about how much IP space to allocate for downstream > customers. I know that when we want to obtain IP space that we have to > go to ARIN with the proper justification forms to show that we have > effeciently utilized our assigned IP CIDR's and also to verify that they > have been SWIP'd, etc... We also offer transport, so I came up with a > basic "rule of thumb" to use as a guideline. Up until recently, this has > worked fine. Now I am uncertain of what I should do with a customer that > is requesting a /23 CIDR, yet they only have 256K bandwidth. Part of me > says give it to them and let thier customers deal with the service that > they will receive, but then I feel obligated to not support bad ISP > service. I guess that I am looking for an industry guideline as opposed > to the one that I am trying to use or if I should even care. I use the > following: 256K = /26, 512K = /25, full T1 = /24, etc.. > Let me know what everyone thinks, is this fair or not, and should I > care??
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