Vladis,
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:48:23 EDT, shogunx said:
If you have $2500 to ante up for the allocation.
If the $2,500 is a stumbling block, you're probably WAY undercapitalized for
the project in the first place....
A situation I'm used to.
Why do you need your own allocation? Either because you're getting pretty
big, or you want to multihome a /26 or some such tiny allocation.
Or you are building new infrastructure.
Let's say you're getting big enough to want your own /19 - even if you're in
a /
20 and growing, that's still 4,000 machines (either your own or customers)..
plus admin salaries, rent, etc, you're a fairly good sized business. That
$2500
shouldn't be a breaking cost - if it is, you're close to failing already and
need to be
thinking about consolidating, not expanding...
Actually just starting to do thing this way. In the past I have found it
expedient to simply bypass any security measures and connect a machine
wherever necessary. And the point is, who decided that IP addresses are a
commodity item anyway?
If you're tiny and trying to multihome, and can't afford $2500, you're
probably
not going to be able to afford the router and 2 or more leased lines, and the
expertise to do it - you probably should be looking at a colo instead.
No need to multihome. In fact, for this PARTICULAR application, I can
probably use a free v6 /24 from a tunnel broker routed over a private
address network, although the users will probably notice the packet
latency from their terminal to the tunnel broker, and its a nasty kludge.
Router? I can build that if necessary.
Colo? Why when I have access to a Tier 1 NOC with backbone running
through it, though that is 600 miles away.
Scott
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