[9828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSP ... New Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel A.L. Paraz)
Thu Jun 5 07:29:28 1997
From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:06:01 +0800 (HKT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970605004146.18126F-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Jun 5, 97 00:43:02 am
Hi,
Nathan Stratton wrote:
> Renumber a lot. It is hard for the Internic to hand out /19 when most of
> the new providers will be out of business in 6 months. The only way to do
> it is to get space from your ISP and then renumber if you move. After you
> do that a few times if you do it will, you will be able to get a /19 and
> then /18 and so on.
The tools for keeping IP independence should also be more mature and
widely deployed... like DHCP for instance, and IP aliasing, which isn't
available on older Unices.
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