Some people don't have the luxury of being able to do this, however, one Auckland provider I know of, has at last count, about 8 or 9 /24 address going down their wire - all allocated in a more or less adhoc fashion because they came with clients who either moved from other providers or applied (and got) the addresses themselves.
Yeah - I noticed the same thing when I was putting together BGP route filters for Citylink. It's just a mess out there.
So the issue is more sticky than this... if we allow people to take the networks for them for some period of time, thats the smallest network we should allow here? We have plenty of customers on /26 or smaller networks, which I would argue should renumber because its not a big job, but some might disagree...
Even a renumber of /24 is not too much to ask for (I think), but certainly a renumber of /20 probably isn't going happen over night.
So - where does one draw the line?
I like the idea of ``If you want more numbers than you have to give them all back and renumber.'' That way they are going to be forced to renumber at some stage (due to network expansion), or look at using NAT (also a good thing as far as address saving goes). I'm also forming an opinion that nothing smaller than a /24 should be able to be changed between providers. Anything smaller is easy to renumber. The reason that I'm thinking /24 and not a smaller prefix is that some organisations have multiple non-contiguous /24's allocated out of the NZGATE range rather than a contiguous smaller-prefix group. Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton Ph: +61-3-9656-7000 Regional Technical Specialist Asia-Pacific Fx: +61-3-9656-7003 Ascend Communications, Inc Mb: +61-419-117-321 Lvl 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Melbourne, AUS mailto:dpemberton(a)ascend.com.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog