Re: Identifying residential CPE IP addresses? (was: SORBS on autopilot?)

2010-01-12 Thread Steven Champeon
on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:59:55PM -0500, Jed Smith wrote: 4. For other reasons laid out in this thread, PTR is not the best choice. Additionally, administrators of mailservers who have no idea what a PTR is -- although their entry fee to the Internet mail system is debatable

ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Scott Howard
As of about an hour ago ATT appear to have started blocking access to a few of our IP addresses. This is being done at a /32 level, and the IP addresses above and below are still allowed through. Has anyone seen them do this before, or know who I need to contact to get it fixed? ATT won't talk

Re: ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Scott Howard wrote: Traceroute to the neighboring IP addresses don't go anywhere near the above path, so it's apparently a blackhole of sorts. Are they bots or CC servers, or open DNS recursors

Re: ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: Traceroute to the neighboring IP addresses don't go anywhere near the above path, so it's apparently a blackhole of sorts. Are they bots or CC servers, or open DNS recursors? They are (authenticated-required) proxy

Re: ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Scott Howard wrote: They are (authenticated-required) proxy servers with 10's of thousands of users behind them, so it's possible that they were seeing some bot-like traffic from them, although the volume would have been tiny compared to the volume of

Re: ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Bennett
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:22:50 -0500, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: As of about an hour ago ATT appear to have started blocking access to a few of our IP addresses. ATT won't talk to me as I'm not a customer... So, wait, are they your addresses or not? -- Paul

Re: ATT blocking individual IP addresses

2009-12-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Paul Bennett paul.w.benn...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:22:50 -0500, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: As of about an hour ago ATT appear to have started blocking access to a few of our IP addresses. ATT won't talk to me as I'm not a customer

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-07 Thread Youssef Ghorbal
:16 To: Bill Stewartnonobvi...@gmail.com Cc: north American Noise and Off-topic Gripesna...@merit.edu; Joe Grecojgr...@ns.sol.net Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Bill Stewart wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Stephen Sprunk step...@sprunk.org writes: FireWire is the only significant user of EUI-64 addresses to date; if you're using a link layer with EUI-48 addresses Zigbee has been around a lot less time than FireWire, but is hardly insignificant (ask anyone who's working on smartgrid or green

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Date: Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:43:17PM -0400 Quoting Ricky Beam (jfb...@gmail.com): The address space has be carved out; there's no uncutting that pie. (much in the same way the /8 handed out in the early 80's aren't being reclaimed.) I believe

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:49 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Sorry, I don't see why /56 is qualitatively different to a /60. Because more is more, and it makes it less likely that people will start to invent silly solutions to problems that do not really exist. With a /56, I can't really

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread david.binet
Internet IP addresses On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote: What is missing, unless I've missed a protocol (which is always possible), is an automated way for a CPE to assign it's networks, pass other networks out to downstream routers in an on-need basis. I say on-need

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Jack Bates
Carsten Bormann wrote: For now: Reserve a /64 for your own allocations (SAA), then hand out half of what you have (i.e., of a /56 for the first CPE, so a /57) to the first asker, then a /58, then a /59 etc. The first asker (nested CPE) has a /57, reserves a /64 for itself (SAA), hands out a

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 6, 2009, at 14:52, Jack Bates wrote: Better standards Sure! (You are preaching to the choir here.) While we are still on the way there, we just: 1) Shouldn't waste time reinventing decisions that are a done deal (say, EUI-64 in SAA). 2) Shouldn't use the lack of our favorite

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Karl Auer wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:58 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: stateless with constant and consistent. SLAAC doesn't need to generate the exact same address everytime the system is started. No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread David Conrad
On May 5, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Karl Auer wrote: Look, the Ark *is* finished. It floats. It can be steered. It has space for everyone. The fact that some of the plumbing is a bit iffy is just not a major issue right now; getting everybody on board is. We have LOTS of very clever people ready

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:24 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009, Karl Auer wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:58 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: stateless with constant and consistent. SLAAC doesn't need to generate the exact same address everytime the system is started. No - but it is

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread TJ
-Original Message- stateless with constant and consistent. SLAAC doesn't need to generate the exact same address everytime the system is started. No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is only ever something you want in very specific circumstances.

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread David W. Hankins
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:57:53AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Of course, the builders used screen doors and windows for the below-the-waterline openings, but not to worry, the bilge pump equivalent of Moore's Law will undoubtedly save us. Speaking as a builder, I have to say the screen doors

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:24:09 -0400, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is only ever something you want in very specific circumstances. You'll love RFC 4941 as implemented by Windows Vista and later. Their awful experimental

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread TJ
No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is only ever something you want in very specific circumstances. You'll love RFC 4941 as implemented by Windows Vista and later. Their awful experimental IPv6 stack in XP already does 3041, so I assume Vista, 2008, and 7 all

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:50:15 -0400, TJ trej...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW - WinXP uses 24hours/change_in_prefix/reboot as the default criteria for new Privacy IID creation, is that not aggressive enough? I define that as not aggressive. (I've seen ISPs rotate addresses (DHCP) faster than that.)

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread TJ
FWIW - WinXP uses 24hours/change_in_prefix/reboot as the default criteria for new Privacy IID creation, is that not aggressive enough? I define that as not aggressive. (I've seen ISPs rotate addresses (DHCP) faster than that.) Fair enough, but IMHO it is aggressive enough to accomplish the

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Ricky Beam wrote: That's exactly how IPv4 was seen long ago, and we've been and will be living with that mistake for decades. It was fixed 15 years ago, but not before more than half the space was wasted. With IPv6 we can use current policy and only waste a /3 and then

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Ricky Beam wrote: On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:03:31 -0400, Bill Stewart nonobvi...@gmail.com wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration much uglier, but you needed a /56 instead of a /64 if you were going to subnet. Does

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Joe Maimon
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009, Ricky Beam wrote: That's exactly how IPv4 was seen long ago, and we've been and will be living with that mistake for decades. It was fixed 15 years ago, but not before more than half the space was wasted. With IPv6 we can use current policy

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Moriniaux Michel
-Message d'origine- De : char...@thewybles.com [mailto:char...@thewybles.com] Envoyé : mardi 5 mai 2009 05:18 À : na...@merit.edu Objet : Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Re sending... I know operational content is frowned on :) ... However in an effort to avoid this thread getting

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Florian Weimer wrote: * Jack Bates: Sorry, Ricky. But that won't work. EUI-64 is required for autoconfig, and it expands the 48 bits to 64 bits by inserting or FFFE depending on if the original is a MAC-48 or EUI-48 identifier. I'm rather puzzled why this blatant layering violation is

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Joe Maimon
Mohacsi Janos wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Ricky Beam wrote: On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:03:31 -0400, Bill Stewart nonobvi...@gmail.com wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration much uglier, but you needed a /56 instead of a /64 if you

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Joe Maimon
Joe Greco wrote: Forwarding these requests up to the ISP's router and having several PDs per end customer is in my opinion the best way to go. How is it the ISP's router is able to handle this? Be specific. I view with suspicion the notion that an ISP is going to take addressing

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Joe Greco
On Tue, 05 May 2009 00:08:51 -0400, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: For today. But, remember, this sort of shortsightedness is what landed us in the current IPv4 pain. 48bit MACs have caused IPv4 address exhaustion? Wow. I didn't know that. No, thinking small is what landed us in

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:04:49 +1000 Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 04:49 +0200, Randy Bush wrote: I'm with you. I wish vendors and spec designers would just get over it and let people subnet however they want. [...] do other than 64 and you do not get

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Wyble
([*] according to the wiki, firewire and zigbee are the only things using EUI-64. I don't know of anyone using firewire as a network backbone. (obviously, not that you care.) Zigbee is relatively new and similar to bluetooth; will people use them as a NIC or connect little zigbee gadgets

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Charles Wyble wrote: ([*] according to the wiki, firewire and zigbee are the only things using EUI-64. I don't know of anyone using firewire as a network backbone. (obviously, not that you care.) Zigbee is relatively new and similar to bluetooth; will people use them as a NIC or connect

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Joe Greco
Joe Greco wrote: Forwarding these requests up to the ISP's router and having several PDs per end customer is in my opinion the best way to go. How is it the ISP's router is able to handle this? Be specific. I view with suspicion the notion that an ISP is going to take addressing

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Greco wrote: Now, the question is, if you're sending all these prefix requests up to the ISP's router, why is *that* device able to cope with it, and why is the CPE device *not* able to cope with it? The CPE cannot cope with it due to lack of a chaining standard and the lack of customer

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote: What is missing, unless I've missed a protocol (which is always possible), is an automated way for a CPE to assign it's networks, pass other networks out to downstream routers in an on-need basis. I say on-need, as there may be 3 routers directly behind

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Why wouldn't DHCPv6-PD work within the home as well as between the ISP and the home? DHCPv6-PD requires manual configuration. I see little reason why the main home gateway can't get a /56 from the ISP, and then hand out /62 (or whatever) to any routers within the

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 05 May 2009 09:13:06 -0400, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: No, it's not too late to make simple changes. We're still figuring out lots of bits about it. Yes, it is too late. IPv6 as it stands is a huge pile of crap and bloat. We'd be better off straping the whole mess and

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote: DHCPv6-PD requires manual configuration. Are you sure? Isn't it just that the current implementations do? Sure, but how does the router know it needs to hand out a /62? Then what about the router after that? Does it hand out a /61? then the router

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Ricky Beam wrote: Yes, we all are. We will all be given a minimum of a /64, while no one has a need for even a billionth of that space, and aren't likely to for the forseeable future. When they do, *then* give them the space they need. Ah, but renumbering is a pain, you say. That's another

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Timmins
Sorry for the top post, but as a crazy thought here, why not throw out an RA, and if answered, go into transparent bridge mode? Let the sophisticated users who want routed behavior override it manually. Jack Bates wrote: Joe Greco wrote: Now, the question is, if you're sending all these

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:28:25 -0400, Charles Wyble char...@thewybles.com wrote: Utility companies utilize Zigbee pretty extensively. So that's millions and millions of addresses right there. But does the entire planet need to talk to those critters? No. Nor should they even be able to.

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Wyble
Ricky Beam wrote: On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:28:25 -0400, Charles Wyble char...@thewybles.com wrote: Utility companies utilize Zigbee pretty extensively. So that's millions and millions of addresses right there. But does the entire planet need to talk to those critters? No. Nor should they

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Jack Bates wrote: Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Why wouldn't DHCPv6-PD work within the home as well as between the ISP and the home? DHCPv6-PD requires manual configuration. It doesn't need to; that's just a flaw in current implementations. I see little reason why the main home gateway can't

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 05 May 2009 16:13:05 -0400, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: Actually, they probably would have stuck to a 64 bit address space and it was debated. Then it came down to, let's make it a 64 bit network space, and give another 64 bits for hosts (96 bits probably would have

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread trejrco
2009 15:58:16 To: Joe Grecojgr...@ns.sol.net Cc: nanog listnanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses On Tue, 05 May 2009 09:13:06 -0400, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: No, it's not too late to make simple changes. We're still figuring out lots of bits about it. Yes

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Barry Shein
The potential problem is segmentation. Start assigning meanings to chunks of bits, like routing info or even customer type (mobile, static, etc) or geography, and the bits can get used up pretty quickly. Or put another way the address space becomes sparsely populated but inflexible. I know,

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread trejrco
other decisions have since been made that rely on /64s. So, half-assed or not - this is the protocol we have, and it works today ... So what is the operational debate? /TJ --Original Message-- From: Ricky Beam To: Jack Bates Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Ricky Beam wrote: Ah, but they half-assed the solution. IPv6 makes no distinction between network and host (eg. classless), yet SLAAC forces this oddball, classful boundry. Routing doesn't care. Even the hosts don't care. Only the tiny craplet of autoconfig demands the network and host

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:58 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: stateless with constant and consistent. SLAAC doesn't need to generate the exact same address everytime the system is started. No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is only ever something you want in very

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread bmanning
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:39:23AM +1000, Karl Auer wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:58 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: stateless with constant and consistent. SLAAC doesn't need to generate the exact same address everytime the system is started. No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:23 -0400, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: Wow, that's a metaphor that has been not merely mixed, but shaken and stirred as well. Are you for a move to IPv6 now or not? Is the Pinto IPv4 or IPv6? What does the exploding gas tank represent? I'm complaining that

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Jack Bates
Ricky Beam wrote: On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:23 -0400, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On the other hand - we have DHCPv6 to work around it. Noone HAS to use SLAAC. ... Yes, but as long as it exists, someone *will*. Actually everyone does. The same formula is used for the link local

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 22:43 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: I'm complaining that the IPv6 we're all being asked to use is a buggy contraption that's best parked until more of it's issues are resolved. Using it is the fastest way to get issues resolved. It worked for IPv4... :-) Expecting all the

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
Sure, but how does the router know it needs to hand out a /62? Then what about the router after that? Does it hand out a /61? then the router behind that? For now: Reserve a /64 for your own allocations (SAA), then hand out half of what you have (i.e., of a /56 for the first CPE, so a /57)

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:12 +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote: Really, /56 for everyone is the only way back to an Internet. Sorry, I don't see why /56 is qualitatively different to a /60. Honest question - what's the difference? Gruesse, Carsten Gruesse, K. --

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Karl Auer wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:12 +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote: Really, /56 for everyone is the only way back to an Internet. Sorry, I don't see why /56 is qualitatively different to a /60. Honest question - what's the difference? Because more is more, and

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Bill Stewart
You have RFC3041 and similar techniques, stateless autoconfig, and a variety of other general things that make it really awful for the default ethernet network size to be something besides a /64. ... I would definitely prefer to see a /56, or maybe a /48, handed out today. When I first

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Bill Stewart wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration much uglier, but you needed a /56 instead of a /64 if you were going to subnet. It's supposed to be a /48 per customer, on the assumption that 16 bits of subnet information is

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:03:31 -0400, Bill Stewart nonobvi...@gmail.com wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration much uglier, but you needed a /56 instead of a /64 if you were going to subnet. Does anybody know why anybody thought it was a

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Charles
Sprunk step...@sprunk.org Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:36:16 To: Bill Stewartnonobvi...@gmail.com Cc: north American Noise and Off-topic Gripesna...@merit.edu; Joe Grecojgr...@ns.sol.net Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Bill Stewart wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Jack Bates
Ricky Beam wrote: 64bit MAC -- which pretty much exists nowhere. It's a repeat of the mistakes from IPv4's early days: CLASSFUL ROUTING. Given there is no CLASS, but just a separation of network and host, I'd hate to compare it to classful routing. They probably would have been happy with

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:03:31 -0400, Bill Stewart nonobvi...@gmail.com wrote: When I came back, I found this ugly EUI-64 thing instead, so not only was autoconfiguration much uglier, but you needed a /56 instead of a /64 if you were going to subnet. Does anybody know why anybody thought

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Greco wrote: But what we're talking about is service providers delegating to customers. Customers should *also* be allowed to subnet however they want. Something they can't do right now, because they aren't given the space. If service providers are allowed to delegate teeny prefixes

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 04 May 2009 18:01:32 -0400, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: Given there is no CLASS, but just a separation of network and host, I'd hate to compare it to classful routing. They probably would have been happy with a /96 network except for stateless autoconfig, which is quite

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Max Tulyev
Louis, may be a provider independent network is what you are looking for. This is an end-user block of IP addresses moving with you from one ISP to another, also can be multihomed to several ISPs together. Our company helps to obtain such networks and autonomous system numbers, from /24 (256 IPs

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 06:38:13PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: So far, Cisco's gear is the only IPv6 routers I've messed with. And they will not let you set an interface to anything smaller than a /64. Loopbacks have slightly different rules, but in my case (IPv6

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:29:29 -0400, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: EUI-64 is required for autoconfig... On paper :-) There's no technological reason why the 48bit MAC wouldn't be enough on it's own. Tacking on an extra (fixed) 16bit value doesn't make it any more unique. Doing so

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 4, 2009, at 23:36, Stephen Sprunk wrote: FireWire is the only significant user of EUI-64 addresses Yesterday, it was. You might want to read up about IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN. We are not joking when we talk about the next billion nodes on the Internet. For those who are worried

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joel Jaeggli: Seth Mattinen wrote: I hear this a lot, but how many linksys default channel 6 end users really have more than one subnet, or even know what a subnet is? By definition, every single one of them that buys wireless router, then buys another and hangs it off the first. That

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Florian Weimer wrote: By definition, every single one of them that buys wireless router, then buys another and hangs it off the first. That happens more often then you would think. Isn't the traffic bridged, so that you don't have to route WINS and other stuff? Then it's

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/05/2009, at 7:19 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Florian Weimer wrote: By definition, every single one of them that buys wireless router, then buys another and hangs it off the first. That happens more often then you would think. Isn't the traffic bridged, so

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: I think that they have to be forwarded. What do you do if people chain three routers? How does your actual CPE know to dish out a /60 and not a /64 or something? What if someone chains four? What if someone puts three devices behind the second? This is

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/05/2009, at 8:31 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: I think that they have to be forwarded. What do you do if people chain three routers? How does your actual CPE know to dish out a / 60 and not a /64 or something? What if someone chains four? What if

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Nathan Ward wrote: Because it allows the home user to arrange their network however they want, up to 16 subnets, without having to have any knowledge of how things actually work. I don't see how your idea of doing on-demand-/64 is any easier than handing them 256 /64:s

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 4, 2009, at 10:08, Nathan Ward wrote: Forwarding these requests up to the ISP's router and having several PDs per end customer is in my opinion the best way to go. If the ISP sees (and has to hand out) the PD, some bean counter will put a price tag on it (differential pricing). If

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote: Then tell RIR's to quit insisting that /56's have SWIP's. They can't very well be dynamic in nature via PD if they are being SWIP'd. I never heard of this requirement before, but I am not in the ARIN region. There is no technical reason why you can't

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Jack Bates
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: It's short sighted and silly to design your service around handing out /64s to people and then you have to redesign it when demand for multiple subnets come around. Design it around /56 to begin with, and you will have solved the problem for the future, not just for

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
Joe Maimon wrote: Joe Greco wrote: One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where doing so isn't strictly necessary. When we forget this, it leads us to the same sorts of disasters that we

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
Carsten Bormann wrote: On May 4, 2009, at 10:08, Nathan Ward wrote: Forwarding these requests up to the ISP's router and having several PDs per end customer is in my opinion the best way to go. If the ISP sees (and has to hand out) the PD, some bean counter will put a price tag on it

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says hey, my /32 is full, I need another one. Will it be: a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun! b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though it was encouraged in the

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
James Hess wrote: A /62 takes care of that unusual case, no real need for a /56 for the average residential user; that's just excessive. Before wondering about the capabilities of home routers.. one might wonder if there will even be _home_ routers ? I think you'd want to do a /60 so

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: My personal feeling is that 99% of home networks will use a single /64, but we'll be giving out /60s and /56s to placate the 1% who are going to jump up and down and shout at us about it because of some reason that they feel makes it all unfair

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Randy Bush
My personal feeling is that 99% of home networks will use a single /64, but we'll be giving out /60s and /56s to placate the 1% who are going to jump up and down and shout at us about it because of some reason that they feel makes it all unfair or that we're thinking like ipv4 not ipv6 etc.

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread sthaug
We *want* things like IPv6 stateless autoconfig to work. It's a great idea. We *want* a protocol simple enough that we don't have to deal with stateful DHCP, we *want* something that is hard to screw up. You should be aware that this is by no means a universal viewpoint. IPv6 stateless

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Joe Greco
We *want* things like IPv6 stateless autoconfig to work. It's a great idea. We *want* a protocol simple enough that we don't have to deal with stateful DHCP, we *want* something that is hard to screw up. You should be aware that this is by no means a universal viewpoint. Very few

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Charles Gucker
with an internet IP address and point it to internal IP address for customers to be able to reach it from the internet. this is for testing and development purposes and will expect several servers on Load-balancer. The 5 static IP addresses just won't be enough. Well, in the OLP product set you would

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: Oh! You mean, like the way we piss away IPv4 addresses? That's pretty much what I'm thinking of. I'm sure that, had their been a NANOG at the time IPv4 was being rolled out, there would have been an equivalent discussion, except substitute /8 for

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: Oh! You mean, like the way we piss away IPv4 addresses? That's pretty much what I'm thinking of. I'm sure that, had their been a NANOG at the time IPv4 was being rolled out, there would have been an equivalent discussion, except substitute /8

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Nathan Ward
On 3/05/2009, at 7:53 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: James Hess wrote: A /62 takes care of that unusual case, no real need for a /56 for the average residential user; that's just excessive. Before wondering about the capabilities of home routers.. one might wonder if there will even be

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-02 Thread trejrco
...@swm.pp.se Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 07:42:21 To: Matthew Palmermpal...@hezmatt.org Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses On Sat, 2 May 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: Handing out an IPv6 /56 to a DSL or cable customer should be handled much the same way as giving them

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-02 Thread James Hess
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: By definition, every single one of them that buys wireless router, then buys another and hangs it off the first. That happens more often then you would think. A /62 takes care of that unusual case, no real need for a /56

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-02 Thread Joe Maimon
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 2 May 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: [1] Just because we've got a lot of it, doesn't mean we should be pissing it up against the wall unnecessarily. A motto for network engineers and economists alike. You can't be wasteful with something that you know is

Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread LEdouard Louis
Juniper DX with an internet IP address and point it to internal IP address for customers to be able to reach it from the internet. this is for testing and development purposes and will expect several servers on Load-balancer. The 5 static IP addresses just won't be enough. Thanks in advance Louis

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
balancing. We must provide Juniper DX with an internet IP address and point it to internal IP address for customers to be able to reach it from the internet. this is for testing and development purposes and will expect several servers on Load-balancer. The 5 static IP addresses just won't

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread Jay Hennigan
LEdouard Louis wrote: Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address. Where can I buy a block of Internet IP address for Business? How much does it cost? Only five? Really? Our basic residential users get 18 quintillion addresses, and business users get 65536 times that many. Tell

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread bmanning
? practically, you can not buy IP addresses. you can buy companies who have the right to use IP addresses (hard), or you can go to ARIN and justify your own right to use (not as hard, but then you have to deal w/ your ISP accepting routes for them), -OR- switch ISPs

RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread LEdouard Louis
Thanks all! I will look into the various suggestions. --Louis -Original Message- From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 3:07 PM To: LEdouard Louis Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses On Fri

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 49fb4661.8090...@west.net, Jay Hennigan writes: LEdouard Louis wrote: Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address. Where can I buy a block of Internet IP address for Business? How much does it cost? Only five? Really? Our basic residential users get 18

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