You don't have to have your own IP space from ARIN to have another ISP route your /24. BGP handles this fine. Just negotiate with the second ISP to route the first ISP's IP's to you. You may have to add your information to the Route Arbiter database(s) for your new ISP to do it. On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:23:24PM +0000, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi all, > > We are a small ISP currently utilizing about 75% of a /24 from our upstream > provider. Due to problems with this provider, we wish to multi-home our > network. We also wish to obtain our own address space (portable address > space). > > Is there *any* way for us to obtain our own IP number allocation when our > utilization is so small (/24). From the reading I have been doing, it > seems that unless you can justify a /19 you are out of luck. ARIN > apparently assigns nothing smaller than a /20 and we certainly cannot > justify an allocation that large at this > > I have read countless websites and articles and am still not clear on these > issues. RFCs which I have read seem to state that allocation is possible > if "the organization is multi-homed with no favored connection" ... which > is where we wish to be. > > If we cannot obtain our own allocation, and must keep our current > allocation, what are our options? Ideally we would like to be in a > situation where we have no ties whatsoever to our current upstream provider > but we could always keep them as a lower speed connection so that we can > retain their allocation. > > Basically I'd like to see all of this information in one place. If you can > point me to some URLs or even books I should buy, great. If you have the > patience to explain it all, even better. > > Regards, > > Fraser Campbell > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-isp-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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