[114131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri May 1 19:40:36 2009
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 2009 11:58:41 MST."
<49FB4661.8090503@west.net>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 09:40:23 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, LEdouard Louis <LEdouard@edrnet.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <49FB4661.8090503@west.net>, Jay Hennigan writes:
> LEdouard Louis wrote:
> > Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address.
> >
> > Where can I buy a block of Internet IP address for Business? How much
> > does it cost?
>
> Only five? Really? Our basic residential users get 18 quintillion
> addresses, and business users get 65536 times that many. Tell them you
> need a few more. :-)
Actually residential users do. One /64 is not enough. On
can argue about whether a /56 or a /48 is appropriate for
residential users but a single /64 isn't and residential
ISP's should be planning to hand out more than a single /64
to their customers.
> Seriously, we do indeed provide that many addresses, but that's on a new
> protocol being implemented to avoid the exact problem you're having.
>
> Talk to your sales guy and see if they will assign a "/28" to you, which
> would give you 13 usable addresses for your hosts. If not, and you have
> a valid need for more space, switch ISPs.
>
> --
> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
> Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
> Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
>
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