ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools

[Daniel Golding]

Yes. However, if there are 500 modems and 2500 users, there should be only
500 IP addresses. The alternative would be to have 2500 IPs (i.e. static
addressing). This is, of course, bad mojo.

- Daniel Golding

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net]On Behalf Of Andy
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: Richard Jimmerson
> Cc: 'Alex Kamantauskas'; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: ARIN's policies concerning dial-up pools
>
>
>
> 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
> >
>