Re: Efficent allocation of sub blocks from a CIDR allocation

[Bill Manning <]

> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or example code, on how to handle
> allocation of sub blocks from a CIDR allocation. Previously Connect
> has allocated a /24 as the minimal block but now the APNIC have
> advised that they do not consider this allocation policy to be
> efficent as defined by RFC 2050 and so I am trying to recode our
> procedures.
> 
> I would like to find (or else write) some code that will "optimally"
> allocate sub blocks and generally manage our allocation (so I can
> return blocks to the pool when customers leave etc). For routing
> convenience (optimisation) I would like to also collect together sub
> /24 allocations for specific POPs so that we don't need to announce
> all the sub /24 blocks to multihomed customers, peers and providers.
> 
> Any ideas? Or pointers to other people to ask (the APNIC have been
> silent on the issue after requiring us to do it before they will issue
> us another block).
> 
> Mark.
> 

Have you looked at TREE?
There ought to be a valid pointer from teh NAP page.


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--bill