- One address for a router - One address for a Web-Server - One address for a firewall - up to 5 additional addresses for "other purposes".
In such cases, they will be allocated 8 or 16 addresses, ( netmask 240 or 248 ).
Neither is this situation, nor in the case depicted later, I do see a case for a full-blown assignment transaction. I would assume that the ISP connecting that web server has the addressesd assigned and manages the adress(es) needed to configure the technical stuff. And assuming that you've got more than one server to support, *you* might want to do an addressing plan and some assessment of your network development.... And if you decide to formally tell your customer about the individual address from your assignment to be used, then this can be seen as local matters. There's a difference, of course, if your're talking about a VSE with a LAN (IP based) that gets connected and might decide to become dual-homed... Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------