John McDowell wrote: > We are looking at our first redundant fiber connection from a second carrier > and feeling the need to have our own IPs so that this will work out well.
If you're multihoming, yeah, it'll be a lot easier if you get your own ASN and allocation of IP space. The tricky bit is that ARIN usually won't talk to you until you're efficiently using at least a /23 or equivalent, then they'll usually give you a /22 to get you started. And then of course you have to plan to renumber everyone -- usually part of the requirement of getting a direct allocation is that you have to return any sub-allocations you got from your upstream in a timely manner. If you didn't plan ahead for that sort of thing, it can be a bit of a headache. > We want to plan for future growth, and for IPv6....any advice? Might as well go ahead and get the IPv6 space. It's likely your direct peers won't be able to deal with it, as few of the major backbones support native IPv6 or BGP-for-IPv6, but it won't hurt. ARIN only bills for the "more expensive" of your IPv4 and IPv6 allocations, so you may be able to get the space effectively "for free." Heck, I've even got a /32 of IPv6 space. Can't do a darn thing with it right now, but it's there, just in case. And you can tunnel it back to SixXS or Hurricane Electric or whomever, then your users can explore http://www.ipv6experiment.com/ :) David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
