Hi Umbi
It depends :-)
If you are a good customer of an ISP (say, you buy a fat leased line or
you rent
some racks in his datacenter), the ISP will usually organize the IP addresses
for free. But this will be PA space, meaning, it's provider dependent. If you
change the provider, you lose the addresses.
If you want PI space (provider independent), you need some very good reasons,
because your provider has to justify the need for 255 IPs to RIPE and he needs
to justify, why it has to be Provider Independent.
Again, it depends on the deal with the ISP. If you buy a lot from this ISP,
he'll probably do it for free. If you are a simple 2 Mbps leased line
customer,
he'll probably charche the time he needs, to organize the IPs for you.
Based on
the per-hour price of usually around 200-300 CHF and the knowledge, that
sometimes the fight with RIPE can take between 1 and 20 hours, you can imagine
that nobody will give you a fixed price, but an estimate. Based on this, I'd
say, that you should permit an absolute maximum of 6000 CHF for this. Anybody
who wants to charge more is probably not a very serious business partner...
About the procedure: Only RIPE-members can request IP addresses at RIPE. And
RIPE membership is not free - the yearly price depends on the size of the
company and the number of already assigned addresses. So the procedure for you
is to choose an ISP and then ask them to do it for you. The more and accurate
information you can deliver to the ISP, the better.
Cheers,
Viktor
Zitat von Umberto Annino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Cheers
I need to know the approximate cost (and maybe also the exact procedure) to
get hold of a class-C IP address block. according to RIPE, they "sell" the
IP-addresses to members only, which seem to be ISP's (don't know if an
individual can sign up as member). and according to some search I made on
google, RIPE itself doesn't charge for the blocks, but the provider may
charge the cost (administration etc.) to the customer.
basically, I need the IP range for a client, and they're already attached to
Swisscom for other purposes (IPSS). of course you'll believe me that I was
connected to approx. 10 different people all over switzerland, only to hear
"the corresponding account manager will get back to you to quote a price".
that was 2 days ago, and now the line is busy (ironically, I thought that
phone companies can manage not to have a line busy on a service center, but
to be able to tell you exact waiting time, re-route your call to a free
callcenter agent etc., but that's another story).
so can anyone tell me how much 255 public IP addresses would approximately
cost?
thanks
regards
Umbi
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