Interesting dilemma with ARIN. Because I was using NAT on my cable modems they wouldn't allocate me enough to move away from them. I had to first demonstrate that I was using x amount of addresses before they would allocate even with my justification that I had more than enough devices to have 80% utilization if they'd allocate them. I was stuck because I didn't have enough addresses at the time to allocate an outside address to each device but couldn't obtain them because I was already using my limited space efficiently by using NAT (when I say efficient obviously I mean from a IP usage standpoint and not a design as we've made clear). It made no sense to me but I was willing to take what I could get. The next 5 years is going to be fun for companies in a similar situation like ours
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/05/2011 15:31, Brian Roche wrote: >> >> Ha, well... since you've pretty much convinced me my network is poorly >> designed by using NAT at all, I realize that even though I don't own >> enough IPv4 for my existing NAT customers, I suppose I could obtain >> addresses from my upstream providers and use them for my residential >> customers. > > That just makes your business contingent on a continued good relationship > with the particular upstream provider that assigned you the addresses. Not > a good idea. > > Get your own addresses off ARIN, while you can. If you can demonstrate a > legitimate requirement for them, they should be assigned. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
