From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 8 13:39:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23517 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (dunn@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23508 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dunn@localhost) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA19615; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:38:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley Dunn To: Ulf Zimmermann cc: isp@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about networks In-Reply-To: <199610081936.MAA16500@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think it is BS. Being in Alameda I would think you should have a plethora of clueful upstream alternatives. Check http://thelist.iworld.com/areacode/510.html and just go down the list searching for a provider who meets your needs. In the US most providers will allocate you address blocks based on need, and will then route those for you as part of the standard bandwidth charge. Charging for routing may be a reality some day, but at this point, in the US at least, it is rare. And help me out here with the math. A /19 is 32 "class Cs", right? 32 * $100 = $3200. So they charge more for aggregation? That is *total* BS. -BD (not BS :) On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > Regardless of the speed to my uplink provider, they want to charge > $100/month per class C network. Or for routing of a /19 CIDR block > they want $4000/month for it plus the charge for the IP providing. > > What do you think of this ? > > Regards, > Ulf. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 > Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net