On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, John Todd wrote:

Here's one. I haven't used it in production, but the demo that I was given was pretty slick. Works on pretty much any POSIX platform... Alas, it is commercial software.

Voyager IP http://www.vger.com/products.shtml#v_ip

Where did you see a demo? Any idea what it costs? I just sent them an email. Not much info on their web site, and their contact submission form is broken.

This was referenced on the list back in Jan of 2002: http://www.freeipdb.org/ http://www.globalcrossing.com

A coworker took a look at this recently. He had some difficulty getting it installed properly and it lacks some features we'd require relating to the tracking of IP allocations in the ways ARIN demands.

This was referenced on the list in November of 2001: http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/

I just installed this. Installation went easily, but it doesn't seem to actually work :) After adding a big block of space and creating one allocation in it, the links to create additional subnets bring up the wrong page. It seems very browser dependent. i.e. with various versions of Netscape and Mozilla on Linux, some of the pages don't work (but don't produce any error messages). The same pages did work in IE on Windows, at least until the whole thing quit working. It also lacks necessary features and doesn't seem to be flexible enough to incorporate the features I want without digging into the code. The basics of what I think an IP allocation tracking system needs (at least for any ARIN member) are: 1) Ability to track allocations from multiple IP blocks 2) Ability to track type of assignment (i.e. assigned vs reserved) 3) Ability to track service category as required on ARIN additional request form. i.e. Dial-up|Cable|Web Hosting|Leased Line| xDSL|Co-location|Wireless|Other-<other subcategory> 4) Storage of customer name and contact info for each allocation 5) Storage of justification info for each assignment 6) Ability to present unallocated space in such a way that allocations can be done efficiently. i.e. if a /28 needs to be allocated, make it easy to find unallocated existing /28's, rather than do unnecessary subnetting to create a new /28. 7) Auditing. When it's additional request time, you need to be able to audit your assignments and add up how much space is reserved, how much is assigned, how much is being used for each of the various ARIN defined categories, look up justifications, etc. 8) Automated swip/unswip or hooks to automate rwhois maintenance would be nice, but not absolutely required. The systems I've seen so far lack multiple features from the above list. Is everyone just using flat files, spreadsheets, or home grown solutions? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________

I use NorthStar in my network, and actually was a developer on it for a while. It's fairly stable, but development has somewhat stalled because of real life issues for the primary developer. Thanks, Adam "Tauvix" Debus Linux Certified Professional, Linux Certified Administrator #447641 Network Administrator, ReachONE Internet adam@reachone.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick" <patrick@stealthgeeks.net> To: "Daniel Abbey" <dabbey@edeltacom.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: Re: IP Management tool for service providers

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Daniel Abbey wrote:

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I am looking for an IP management which has flexible management capabilities. I need it for managing my customers IP assignments, and keeping stock of my IP pool. Do you have any suggestions?

http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/ looked pretty reasonable last time I checked.

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