
Hey everybody We have a customer who has build a rather large ethernet MAN network in there local area (potentialy 50.000 privat customers), they have chosen us to provide the internet capacity for there solution. Now the issue of Fixed IP addresses comes up. The solution they have designed for there network, requires a /30 for each customes that requests a fixed IP address. Is this "allowed" in current RIPE policies ? Nicolaj Ottsen

Hoi Nicolaj, Assuming half of your customers need a /32, you will have to create 25000 interfaces on your router(s) and need a /15 to accomodate this. I'm quite sure you cannot justify this, but that is my personal opinion. If it is allowed or not, building these types of networks should not be encourraged. Either switch to PPPoE (which gives out /32 IP addresses to endusers) or use bridged ethernet and shared media (/24s with DHCP) where possible. groet, Pim On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:01:18PM +0200, pop3.tjantik.dk wrote: | Hey everybody | | We have a customer who has build a rather large ethernet MAN network in | there local area (potentialy 50.000 privat customers), they have chosen us | to provide the internet capacity for there solution. | | Now the issue of Fixed IP addresses comes up. The solution they have | designed for there network, requires a /30 for each customes that requests a | fixed IP address. | | Is this "allowed" in current RIPE policies ? | | Nicolaj Ottsen | | | | -- __________________ Met vriendelijke groet, /\ ___/ Pim van Pelt /- \ _/ Business Internet Trends BV PBVP1-RIPE /--- \/ __________________

Assuming half of your customers need a /32, you will have to create 25000 interfaces on your router(s) and need a /15 to accomodate this. I'm quite sure you cannot justify this, but that is my personal opinion.
While at Demon, we worked very hard to ensure that the assignment policies at RIPE did not enforce business decisions on companies - that is the job of the marketplace in a 'capitalist' world. It is not a case of justifying the >purpose< of the assignment, all you have to do is justify the quantities of address space you require, and show that you have explored alternatives but that your business model requires a particular usage. Peter
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