I know of one large ($1 Billion+) retailer who was assigned 5 Class C's two months ago by MCI for a DMZ network, one for each division sharing the link. 1270 addresses is a hell of a lot of proxies and email gateways... At 08:00 PM 11/18/96 -0800, Matt Ranney wrote:

Wayne Bouchard writes...

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Heartily agreed.. Its far far easier to get address space when you've got the docs to prove you need it and you've allocated intelligently. They require you to justify need, why shouldn't you require customers requesting multiple class Cs to justify need?

Do larger providers have to play by the same rules, or do they all still have so much extra space from the pre-CIDR days that it doesn't matter? I ask because I know of at least one BBN customer that less than a year ago was assigned 3 /24's for their 30 machine network. -- Matt Ranney - mjr@eit.com

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