Welcome to the club. ARIN is commonly referred to by my peers as the "IP Nazi's"... Brantley At 12:46 AM 12/15/2000 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Also sprach David R Huberman
We're currently efficiently (according to ARIN's guidelines) utilizing a /20, 2 /23's and a /24. We apply to ARIN for space, and what do they say they'll give us? A /20. Period. Someone care to explain this to me?
It means you didn't explain your goals clearly enough, I guess.
What is there to explain?
If you demonstrate to ARIN efficient utilization of 21 /24s (as you describe above), you qualify for 32 /24s for renumbering purposes; a /19.
Go back and show them you've used 21 /24s efficiently and ask for sufficient address space with which to renumber and grow your business. You'll get a /19 every time.
Hello...I'm using *more* than a /20 right *now*. If I had 100% efficient utilization of the IP addresses that we're using *today* I couldn't fit into just a /20. I can't come up with *any* logic that would make sense to renumber into a /20. This information was clearly spelled out on our application. If the folks at ARIN are too dense to add a few numbers together, you'd think they'd at least drop us an email or a phone call and ask a question or two! Sheesh! There is *NO* excuse for ARIN here, what they've done with us has *NO* rational explanation. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456