Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

On Friday 09 February 2001 09:46, Joshua Goodall wrote:>
> Can I also point to RFC3021, using 31-bit prefixes for point-to-point
> links? This is relevant.

I see little point in giving a user one usable IP address by assigning
eitehr a /31 or /30 to the point to point link.  All you achive with that is
wasting *2 or *4 the number of IP addresses used.

All we need to do it route a /32 down the link - as we alredy do for
all out dialu customers - be then dynamic or statically assigned.

I think one nice solution would be to allocate all users one /32 that
is routed down the connection, and also one /24 of private IP address
space - NATed by the ISP.

This way - a user may use mutiple machines without any effort
(by using the /24) yet can have an unrestricted access to the
internet by using the /32.

If the /24 is a 'stanard' range agree amonst us that would probably
make things easier.  Do windows boxes have a default private IP
it assigns to ethernert interfaces?  If so, using that seems like a
good option.

regards,

aid



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