-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Totally depends on how the ISP is getting to the internet. When Pioneer Internet came online in the early years our upstream provider was NetINS out of Des Moines, we got all our address space from them. Now we are looking to be multi-homed to the net. Thusly we need to obtain our own network address space, this is where the paper work comes in. ARIN ( http://www.arin.net/ ) is what we'll call the keeper of IP's for the US. Once you can prove to them your worthyness to get IP's they will assign you a net block. Typically not smaller than a /19 which is roughly 8,192 hosts ( http://home.samfundet.no/~oystein/nettverk/cidr-chart.html ). So you have to be able to REALLY justify that many addresses, and show 80% utilization with I think 9 months. When they are happy ARIN will give you your ASN (Autonomous System Number) for BGP routing of your address space. Then you can start ordering connections from any and every backbone provider and route your traffic.
Mike On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:18, Neal Daringer wrote: > this question has bothered me for some time. Where do ISPs get their IP > addresses? and how do they get those IP addresses allocated to their > network(say its a brand new network that has no connection to the > internet)? There must be some organization that has total control over > internet IP. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/s3UmUFtrUUciv4RAs60AJwOw9gnOLOqZ8/Ix6+mQLLTFXBBbwCdE9FA q3uGYz2EhwwEJpDjf8vzaCg= =mMYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
