IP address space management
Brandon Ross
bross at mindspring.net
Mon Oct 19 20:30:33 UTC 1998
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Brian Dickson wrote:
> >> We are in need of a software package to manage our IP space. We've looked at
> >> several products on the market but haven't found anything that really suits
> >> an ISP's needs very well. Does anyone know of anything on the market that
> >> works well? It should understand CIDR and be hierarchical.
>
> I guess the question would be, what is meant by hierarchical... do you mean
> assigning sub-CIDR blocks to customers, and then managing customers' space
> as well as your own?
Something like that. We have a need to assign perhaps a large block to
web hosting, then out of that block assign smaller blocks to each server,
then yet a smaller block still to each customer, for example.
CIDR and VLSM goes without saying...
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