On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
However, they are under a greater burden than your traditional ISP. Most of the equipment they were forced to use in the "early days", and possibly a good deal of it today, is not what I would call "optimal". They are forced to allocate /24s to some cable routers no matter how few customers there are on that router. Most do not understand classless IP, or even
So can I qualify for my own chunk of space (I'll be nice and only ask for a /16) if I use RIP and can't subnet? I find it hard to believe ARIN would buy "but my routers won't let me subnet" as justification for address space. ---dont't waste your cpu, crack rc5...www.distributed.net team enzo--- Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Spammers will be winnuked or Network Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Florida Digital Turnpike | to get the job done. ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key________