The Big Squeeze
Paul Ferguson
pferguso at cisco.com
Sun Mar 2 16:00:17 UTC 1997
At 10:48 AM 3/2/97 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>
>It's the renumbering part that I think gives people the most
>heartburn... By the time you get "big enough" to warrent your
>own block, you've got at least 32 ClassCs of which, I'm betting,
>at least 28 are "given" to LAN-connected customers. This is
>a _major_ headache not only for the ISP to go thru but also a
>major headache to force your customers to go thru. That is, what
>I think, is what really is most painful; that by the time you
>are big enough to have your own block, you're too big to want
>to renumber: Catch 22
>
Que sera, sera. Renumbering is a fact of life.
See: RFC1900, RFC2008, RFC2071.
- paul
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