[114133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri May 1 20:57:50 2009
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 17:57:42 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200905012340.n41NeNKD093855@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mark Andrews wrote:
> 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.
>
I hear this a lot, but how many "linksys default channel 6" end users
really have more than one subnet, or even know what a subnet is?
~Seth
