[SATLUG] market value

[Bruce Dubbs]

Leif Johnson wrote:

>Can anyone give me an estimate of the current market value of 254
>public/static IP numbers? Not that I'm offering them for sale I'm just
>looking for information to explain to my administration on why we should
>not trade them for an ESC2 10-dot set.
>
I once investigated how ISPs get IP addresses.  I found that the minimum 
block was 16K addresses and the price was $2500 per year.  ISPs sell 
them for considerably more.

On the other hand, you only need one IP address with network address 
translation and that can be DHCP.  Internal systems can use a private IP 
address like 10.x.x.x. If you are running servers that are accessable 
from the outside of your network, you need one static address per server.
  -- Bruce