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Thought I'd pass along the below: GLOBAL CROSSING RELEASES FREE IP ADDRESSING SOFTWARE TOOL Global Crossing released a free software tool designed to help ISPs and other organizations manage and assign IP address space to customers more efficiently. The software tool creates a streamlined allocation process and provides a method for easily and accurately auditing existing address space usage, enhancing the ability of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) tables to manage router information. The software was originally developed by Ben April, a Global Crossing network engineer, to help allocate more than 2 million IP addresses in parcels that range in size from two to four addresses up to thousands of addresses in the most mathematically conservative way possible. Global Crossing said its decision to release the tool for free is part of a larger effort to extend the life of IPv4 until IPv6 becomes broadly available. The tool is available for free online. http://www.freeipdb.org/ http://www.globalcrossing.com Global Crossing, January 10, 2002
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