On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 02:49:19AM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
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.
That argument only works for *some* people Jon. As you can see (it apparently worked for @HOME!) Try it and let us know if it works for you :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.