Renumbering, was: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

Wed May 21 20:15:17 UTC 2008

Deepak Jain wrote:
> Can we all agree that while renumbering sucks, a /24 (or less) is a 
> pretty low-pain thing to renumber (vs. say, renumbering a /20 or 
> shorter prefix?) In an ideal world, you never have to renumber because 
> your allocations were perfect from the get-go.
Depends - If you're an Enterprise where 90% of the equipment is managed 
by people who work in the same building, it's not horrible. I renumbered 
a bunch of /20s onto a /18 where 75% of the equipment was not in my (or 
the company's) control. That sucked big time.

David