From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 16:30:49 GMT-3
At 10:33 AM -0500 7/16/02, Wright, Jeremy wrote:
>I'm arguing with one of my remote sites managers because he is claiming that
>he needs 20 /16 addresses. Thats right...20 /16's. He has no concept of
>subnetting or routing. I dont have a clue how much 20 /16's would cost in
>the real world. I'm thinking it would be impossible to obtain 20 /16's. I
>just wanted to see if someone would have a guesstimate on the price of that
>many ranges (millions?). dont worry...he's not getting more than 254
>addresses and NAT. i just want to rub it in his face how the real world
>would react.
>
Explain it to him this way. Tell him address space is leased, not
sold, by a strict Homeowners' Association/Condo Board/etc. that has
strict rules on how the space can be used. Show him the ARIN address
request and tell him he has to justify the space, with a business and
engineering plan, before they will even consider his application --
and he may have to demonstrate he has 50% of the present space in use.
In any case, he wouldn't get 20 of anything, he'd get an aggregatable
CIDR block on a power of 2, so he'd have to justify either 32 or 16
/16 equivalents: an /11 or /12. Tell him the whole cable TV
industry, under a special and controversial exception, was able to
start with a /14.
In other words, he either needs to learn to read or to take his medication.
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