[71787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Wed Jun 23 15:52:42 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:49:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406231902160.10855-100000@a.mx.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:06:54 +0000 (GMT) "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> wrote:
> RW> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:35:06 -0400 (EDT)
> RW> From: Richard Welty
> RW> i had a customer once who had, for no reason they could
> RW> ever clearly explain, arbitrarily used ericson's IP space for
> RW> their own internal network.
> Only one customer?
we were a small outsourced network monitoring/management
business (since bought by someone else, several years ago now.)
another way to look at it is that at one point in time, 25% of our
customer base was using "improper" ip address space (not
our fault, we knew better. legacy is a bitch.)
> It gets annoying after a while.
when you're trying to do SNMP, it gets beyond annoying, it
seriously cramps your network engineering style.
richard
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