If you can't justify the cost business for a /20 then get a new upstream. Sales people are attempting to contact you at this moment ...
--On Wednesday, 26 June 2002 22:22 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So, after lurking here for about 4 years I actually have a question... > > We're a fairly small ISP; we currently have a /24, a /25, and a /28 > allocated piecemeal from our upstream's two /19s. (Upstream is Viawest). > Now that we've rolled out DSL we're needing a bit more space - based on > current trends about 200 addresses over the next 6-12 months. > > Viawest has just told me that their policy is that customers who go over > a /23 worth of address space must request further space directly from > ARIN. > > In other words, we're supposed to call ARIN up and get a private /24 for > this. We're not multi-homed; we have absolutely no need for a private > /24 instead of a chunk of Viawest's existing space. We're not growing > rapidly and it's very unlikely we'll more than 4 class C's worth of > address space in the next 4 years. > > Questions: can we actually qualify for a /24 from ARIN? Will all NSPs > accept a private /24 announced from Viawest without us having to track > down each NSP and negotiate with them? Will the ARIN fee be $2500? > Is refusing to provide small blocks out of their own address space > a common practise for NSPs? > > The private /24 issue makes me mildly grouchy due to the whole "global > routing table size" issue, but the $2500/year makes me REALLY grouchy, > especially as that same /24 would cost our upstream about $40/year. > > Thanks - > -Robert Tarrall.- > Unix System/Network Admin > E.Central/Neighborhood Link > -- Joseph T. Klein +1 414 628 3380 Network Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... the true value of the Internet is its connectedness ..." -- John W. Stewart III
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