On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote:
If you knew something about the political structures of
SWITCH and of UZH you wouldn't recommend "kicking the network
administrator".
If you would have read the rest of the message you might have noticed
that I said you have an L7 issue, and therefor I still recommend kicking
them, very hard, because they are not doing their jobs properly by
assigning you address space that you can't use, unless that is their job
of course.
First to the OP issue. Why can't you internally NAT IPv4 hosts?
Now we're venturing OT. Don't blame the Network Admins, there are
historic reasons why lots of IP space isn't used. We have several legacy
/16 assigned at my day job work place. Back in the day we distributed
/24 to internal orgs as they requested them. Some of these /24 are
barely utilized, but the in service IPs are not sequentially located on
the /24. We can't just tell these people to compress their IP space down
to a /25, /26, /27 or /28 and return the rest, because they talk to
external hosts running apps that are not easily modified. Besides of
course the internal politics of telling people in other orgs how to run
their business.
diana
