Re: ISP related question

2001-03-14 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>All, > >A simple question for those who have related exprience/knowledge: >If we want to switch to another ISP, how soon we need to finish our >readdressing? There's no formal rule, although 30-60 days typically can get negotiated. As a side comment, remember that when you do switch, it's prob

Re: ISP related question

2001-03-14 Thread Brian
If you really have a /16 out of public space, I would suspect that would be yours to keep. I would encourage investigation of this. That is a whole lot of space. Brian "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 98muap$qvu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:98muap$qvu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > A

RE: ISP related question

2001-03-14 Thread Tom
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ISP related question If you really have a /16 out of public space, I would suspect that would be yours to keep. I would encourage investig

Re: ISP related question

2001-03-14 Thread JP
I made a mistake in the original email, we own the /16, but there are a bounch of /24 which we got from our ISP. We are not globally routing the /16, so this makes the story different. We just need to replace those /24s from the new ISP, probably get something continious. I guess the big concern i

Re: ISP related question

2001-03-14 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>I made a mistake in the original email, we own the /16, but there are a >bounch of /24 which we got from our ISP. We are not globally routing the >/16, so this makes the story different. We just need to replace those /24s >from the new ISP, probably get something continious. I guess the big conce

Re: ISP related question

2001-03-15 Thread JP
I know, but that will take a multination company many years to do that. Yes, we do not have DHCP. JP -- ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p05001927b6d5f6ddd97d@[63.216.127.100]... > >I made a mistake in the original email, we own the /16, but there are a > >bounc

Re: ISP related question

2001-03-15 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>I know, but that will take a multination company many years to do that. >Yes, we do not have DHCP. A multinational company should look at the costs of not having an aggressive program of introducing mechanisms that make it easy to renumber. Also, in an Internet economy, any organization that

Re: [Re: ISP related question]

2001-03-15 Thread EA LOUIE
If you're not advertising the /16, then how exactly are you allowing your inside hosts to access the Internet? If you're NATing, then wouldn't it make sense to convert your inside network to private address space, and return the /16 to the IANA/InterNIC for re-allocation to an organization and/or

RE: ISP related question /migration strategy

2001-03-14 Thread Jim Dixon
oward C. Berkowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ISP related question >All, > >A simple question for those who have related exprience/knowledge: >If we want to switch to another ISP, how soon we need to finish