Why not use something from the private ranges?
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
Also, Class A would let you address 16 million of these devices. Do you
really have that many?
Also, quite a few large companies, universities, and service providers have
hung onto their Class A address. What would happen if the users from the
Internet that you mentioned below happened to be on the same Class A as you
are using? IP spoofing protection (if you are using it) might not let these
users in. Even if they got in, the responses to their packets might get
routed internally not back to them. You could avoid these problems, of
course, but why even risk having them?
I'm sure you have your reasons and you're just trolling for a sanity check.
Without more details, we have to give you the sort of canned response that
it's a bad idea. ;-)
Priscilla
At 10:01 AM 5/17/01, Bruce Williams wrote:
>My company wants to use public addresses from the Class A range internally.
>I realize the danger if these routes got advertised on the Internet, but is
>this something that is considered acceptable if it is carefully done to
>prevent the risk of these routes being propagated out on the Public
>Internet? These networks will be used to address equipment in a multitude of
>cellular radio base stations around the country and they will only be
>connected to our network. There will central locations where users from the
>internet could access a database which will query these systems, but there
>will not be a direct internet connection. I would appreciate any advice on
>this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Bruce Williams
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