standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses

up at 3.am up at 3.am
Wed Jun 13 13:26:13 UTC 2001


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:

> I would personally tar and feather any sales rep who promises a certain 
> amount of IP space to a customer without knowledgee of the customer's 
> actual IP needs and current utilization. PSI was famous for handing out 
> /24s from their 38.0.0.0/8 space willy-nilly, and I've had more than one 
> conversation with a "refugee" customer who says "but...but...PSI gave me a 
> /24!#@!#"...

I think they must have gotten the message, because I know a PSI customer
that was using close to a /27 when they went with them, and that's just
what they got, from 38/8...

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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