Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:06:43 +0200 From: "Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za> To: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan@sensation.net.au>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Local IP addresses Message-ID: <005101c01d61$f288d1e0$112821c4@sai.co.za> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009131724330.13831-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
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Hi Rowan, Thanks for getting back to me. ;-) You see we use ipfw to limit our clients international bandwidth to what ever they have purchased from us.... now the thing is that we need to find South Africa's range of IP's so that we can limit all IP traffic except the local IP's . Regards Dave Wilson The S.A. Internet (033) 3456777 0825496159 http://www.sai.co.za "Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan@sensation.net.au> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:27 AM Subject: Re: Local IP addresses > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Dave Wilson wrote: > > > Hi guys, howzit going ? > > > > Do you have any ideas where I can find out what IP blocks are registered in > > S.A ? > > The reason being that we need to limit our clients' access to international > > bandwidth with our traffic shaper. For this to happen I need to know what > > IP's are local to South Africa. > > Just curious - why do you do this? Is there a technical reason (like being > charged more by your upstream for international traffic) or some other > reason? > > Bear in mind that just because an IP range happens to be located in South > Africa, doesn't mean it's going to travel on local links only. People may > also use IP space allocated from elsewhere. > > Cheers. > > > -- > Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ > Sensation Internet Services http://info.sensation.net.au/ > Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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