Also sprach Dennis Glatting
You can't get address pool space from ARIN for anything less than a /20, last I looked.
Oh, and how about this lovely logic. 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? We're going to give back to upstreams a /20+ that we're efficiently utilizing, and to do this we're supposed to renumber into *less* space than what we have now? And to pay for the privelage of doing so? And people wonder why providers and other corporations don't have any motivation to clean up routing tables and do the other things we're always being told we need to do in order to be good Internet neighbors. People tend to quit doing nice things if doing nice things earns them a slap in the face. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
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? We're going to give back to upstreams a /20+ that we're efficiently utilizing, and to do this we're supposed to renumber into *less* space than what we have now? And to pay for the privelage of doing so? And people wonder why providers and other corporations don't have any motivation to clean up routing tables and do the other things we're
Choices: 1) Start renumbering into the ARIN /20. Apply for more space when you've just about used up the /20. Unless you're switching providers sometime soon, there should be no real rush to get out of the provider space. OTOH, you don't want to take forever renumbering since it's financially in your interest to get your next allocation in the same year as the first. If they go by calendar years, I wouldn't want to be you right now...needing to renumber, apply for more space, and hopefully get approved in the next two weeks on top of the holidays. 2) Call ARIN / reapply and tell them they're boneheads for giving you less space than you're currently efficiently using (and planning to renumber out of in a timely manner). Hopefully, your /20 is from a reserved /19...but I think I remember reading they don't do that any more. In this case, not doing that would be kind of stupid since you're obviously going to need more than the /20 and everyone's BGP routers would benefit from your having one /19 rather than two /20's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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