Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:32:44 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved! (Was Re: Routing questions) Message-ID: <199612022032.OAA25017@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199612021942.MAA29564@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 2, 96 12:42:03 pm
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> Nate Williams writes: > > Background: > > I've got a block of 32 IP addresses assigned to me (a chunk out of a > > class C), and everything has been working wonderfully thanks to advice > > from folks on hackers when I set this up. > > > > Howevever, my boss now wants his own little dedicated network at home. > ... > > Based on feedback from Joe Greco and such, he suggested contacting my > ISP and having them assign us another block of addresses for out home > networks. I didn't think it was a 'kosher' thing to ask for, but based > on his prodding I did and I'm now the proud owner of another 32 IP > addresses, which I'll break into 4 chunks and assign to each of the > employees for their home. > > It's by *far* the easiest solution, and given that we're not using > anymore bandwidth than we were paying for already the ISP was more than > willing to give us more addresses. It'll work out really well for us, > and saves on the nightmare of trying to hack around routes and such (and > I still don't have to learn about NAT). Oh, hooray :-) You will be delighted at how it tends to simplify things. A Novell guy I work with sometimes keeps asking me why I am so hot on giving people real address space. I admit that there are a lot of products (and ways) out there to do NAT-like or single-IP Internet access solutions, but when it comes down to it, nothing is quite as flexible as real IP. And when you have to go to a customer's site to fix a problem, nothing is as irritating as finding some hokey mucked up solution for doing NAT type things. In the long run, with IPv6, I hope that address space is not a problem. ... JG
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