On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 02:44:27AM -0600, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
Just like to throw an interesting wrench into this whole discussion.
Our current allocations are a /18 and a /19.
Although we are growing fairly quickly here, we're actually seeing negative address utilization here.
The reason?
We started to recommend to our larger customers that their newly-redesigned switched 100Mb/s plus really-flat network might be better served by the 10/8 or the equivalent /16 and /24 address blocks with a proxy server. Better security, less address space utilization.
When a customer who you allocated a /20 to releases it back after renumbering into one of the 10/8-type blocks it makes a big difference when your total allocated space is only equivalent to 6 /20's.
Of course, this is only a temporary reduction, as we are adding several POP's this summer which will consume more than has been reclaimed.
I would be interested if anyone else has seen anything similar.
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