[ppml] IP Address Management Tools
Zeibari, Gregory
Gregory_Zeibari at cable.comcast.com
Mon Aug 18 14:26:04 EDT 2003
just an FYI...
We have been working with a Company named Diamond IP Technologies, to
develop such a tool to help us manage all of our private and public IP
space, called NetControl.
Please contact Michael Dooley directly at mdooley at diamondip.com,
610-423-4770 for more information.
Thanks.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Dillon at radianz.com [mailto:Michael.Dillon at radianz.com]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:27 AM
To: ppml at arin.net
Subject: [ppml] IP Address Management Tools
A few weeks ago, John Lewis said:
>It doesn't help that there seems to be no suitable tool for tracking IP
>utilization to the degree that ARIN applications require...at least none
>that I've seen, and I've installed and tested several of the free
>ones...and never got anywhere trying to get info or a test drive out of a
>commercial one. This means for the average ISP, ARIN application time is
>also IP utilization audit time. Not a fun time for whoever does it.
>If someone were to develop an affordable (to the average small ISP) tool
>for IP allocation tracking, and applying for more space was reduced to
>filling out a few text fields on the ARIN application and including a
>report from your allocation tracking system, I think there'd be alot less
>complaining about the 3-month's supply policy by ISPs when they get to
>their 3rd allocation and finally get slapped down by the 3-month policy.
I suggest that ARIN should provide such a tool in furtherance of its
purposes such as numbers 4, 5 and 8. You can read the full text of those
numbered purposes at this URL:
http://www.arin.net/library/corp_docs/amend_june_19_1997.pdf
I would like to see a discussion of this on the agenda at the next members
meeting.
I envisage this tool as something which uses a proper hierarchical data
model for IP addresse, not a relational data model, and which uses an
appropriate programming language which could be incorporated into
commercial software packages or adopted by enterprise IT departments. That
probably means a Java framework combined with Python for scripting glue.
http://www.jython.org
Some things which are definitely not appropriate are MySQL and PERL. There
are already several hack jobs that people have thrown together using PERL
and MySQL but they don't do the job well enough, would never be adopted by
enterprise IT departments or commercial network management packages. In
addition, MySQL is a RELATIONAL database but IP address ranges are
hierarchical in nature and are better suited to an object-oriented or a
hierarchical database model. The intention is not to do another hack job
but to provide a reference implementation that other people will adopt and
integrate into their larger systems.
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Michael Dillon
Capacity Planning, Prescot St., London, UK
Mobile: +44 7900 823 672 Internet: michael.dillon at radianz.com
Phone: +44 20 7650 9493 Fax: +44 20 7650 9030
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