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If you can get your hands on a portable /24 from the swamp, you will not need to speak BGP with your colo provider. Simply have it in your contract that they will advertise the /24 for you, and route it to your port on the switch/router. Any colo provider that would refuse to advertise a portable /24 for a customer is not worth bothering with. How to get your hands on a portable /24 is left as an exercise to the reader :-) BTW how much would you be willing to pay for a /24? K On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Hire, Ejay wrote: > > Yes and no. Can you half-drown yourself at the watering hole? > > If you (BGP) peer with the ISP(s) at the Colo facility, then you can > advertise your Ip space and it will work at any facility. The bad news is > that if you advertised Provider A's Ip space, and then go to a colo not > served by Provider A, they will (rightly) want their Ip's back. If your Ip > requirements were large enough to justify "Provider independent" space, then > it would be portable everywhere. > > Good Luck, > Ejay > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark J. Scheller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:15 PM > To: > Subject: IP Addresses for colocation > > Hello NANOG, > > I'm in the process of evaluating whether to transition away from > self-hosting > web servers to have them hosted at a colocation facility. The obvious > advantages being greater capacities for bandwidth, power, cooling, and oh > yes, > proper methods of putting out a fire (instead of drowning the servers in > water > if they so much as overheat). > > The concern I have is this: if we decide a few months down the road that we > don't like this particular colocation facility and wish to move to another > one > across the street, I'd have to renumber all of my hosts. Is it possible to > go > to any colocation facility with a block of IP addresses in hand and use > them? > I'm talking about a /24 here, so I cannot request the addresses directly > from > ARIN, rather I need to get them from some other source. I attempted to get > them from our current bandwidth provider, but they seem to be a little taken > aback by my request for a block of addresses that will not be routed by them > -- in fact, while writing this they called to tell me they will not provide > IP > space unless they route to it. > > Is there a better way to get a /24 that can "go anywhere"? Or should I just > justify a /24 at the colocation facility and go through the same process > should we decide to change? Is there a way to buy a routable /24? > > Thanks in advance for any advice, on or off list. I will summarize unless > the > answer is "you're crazy, such things aren't possible" in which case I'll be > off drowning my sorrows at a nearby watering hole. > > Mark J. Scheller ([email protected]) >
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