On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote: Anybody want to recommend a list (or create one) to discuss this kind of thing on? I'll join it, promote it and leave NANOG alone for a while.
As someone who's about to renumber a public school district from a /24 to something else, what would be the smallest network to get (from InterNIC) that would pretty much be guaranteed to be routed for the next few years? I'm thinking a /22 at the moment, but am not sure.
No. Read RFC1918 and use those addresses in conjunction with a proxy firewall. You'll neve need to renumber again and you gain the added benefit that nobody can contact the outside world without going through your proxy which can block the kiddies from http://www.penthouse.com et al.
Granted the best solution would be go to our provider (all the schools in Santa Clara County, CA go through the county office of education for internet access) and have them get an /18 or something and distribute that, but they don't seem to want that. Should I push them for this solution?
Doesn't matter if you use a *COORDINATED* scheme for allocating RFC1918 addresses. As long each school in the county uses different blocks from 10/8 there will be no problems going it alone today and merging at some future date. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com