On Friday 09 February 2001 09:46, Joshua Goodall wrote:>
Can I also point to RFC3021, using 31-bit prefixes for point-to-point links? This is relevant.
I see little point in giving a user one usable IP address by assigning eitehr a /31 or /30 to the point to point link. All you achive with that is wasting *2 or *4 the number of IP addresses used. All we need to do it route a /32 down the link - as we alredy do for all out dialu customers - be then dynamic or statically assigned. I think one nice solution would be to allocate all users one /32 that is routed down the connection, and also one /24 of private IP address space - NATed by the ISP. This way - a user may use mutiple machines without any effort (by using the /24) yet can have an unrestricted access to the internet by using the /32. If the /24 is a 'stanard' range agree amonst us that would probably make things easier. Do windows boxes have a default private IP it assigns to ethernert interfaces? If so, using that seems like a good option. regards, aid -- Adrian Bool | http://noc.vianetworks.net/ Director, Global Network | tel://+44.1925.484061/ VIA NET.WORKS Inc. | fax://+44.1925.484466/