ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools

[Andy]

I disagree. If they have 20 modems, there are twenty IPs. I don't care if
there are only 20 users. The ratio is IP to modem and it should be 1:1.

andy

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Richard Jimmerson wrote:

> Hello Alex,
> 
> When allocating IP address space to your downstream customers
> for their dial pools it is important to pay attention to the
> the users to modems ratio to ensure they are not assigning
> static IP addresses to their dial-up customers.  Although it
> is important to make sure they are making dynamic assignments,
> it is also important to take their number of simultaneous
> users during peak usage hours into consideration.
> 
> Richard Jimmerson
> Director of Operations
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On 
> > Behalf Of Alex
> > Kamantauskas
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:09 AM
> > To: ppml at arin.net
> > Subject: ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  I am wondering if ARIN has an allocation policy concerning 
> > dial-up modem
> >  pools.  I have a few customers requesting network blocks, 
> > and in their
> >  justifications they have "dial pools" listed.  Is there a 
> > certain ratio
> >  of users to modems that I should keep an eye out for?  In 
> > some cases, I
> >  have suspicions that the customer could only justify X 
> > addresses, so they
> >  added Y modems in a "dial up pool" to beef up their 
> > requested numbers.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alex Kamantauskas
> > alexk at tugger.net
>