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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:01 EDT, [email protected] said: > > Hi, is there a standard or a practice on how much IP addresses an ISP should > > provide to his/her client given that this client has bought only 2Mb of > > bandwidth and this client is an ISP? > > Umm.. don't bother. Let's think this through. 2Mbits/sec of bandwidth > will only sustain about 40 56KB modems doing a simultaneous download. > > Even adding in think time and the like, a /24 should be plenty wide enough. Not really...I regularly see 180+ lines filled and BW utilization averages about 800-900kbps. This is with a couple hundred websites, outsourced news a dedicated DS0 customer that stays pegged almost all the time and several colocated servers. I'll bet this has been hashed here a few times... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [email protected] http://3.am =========================================================================
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