Karl Hancock ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: A while back I remember a discussion on this list about HP assigned IP
:  addresses.  These were
: Class C addresses that HP had given to customers but in the eyes of the
Internic
:  were still assigned
: to HP.  I recall reading something about getting HP to reassign this address
to
:  the customer.  Is this
: correct?  If so who do you call at HP?
 
: The class C address we have been using may fall into this category.  HP
:  originally set it up on our network
: several years ago.  If I check the Internic, it is assigned to HP.  The
contact
:  listed was Atul Garg at a phone number that
: no longer works.
 
: Karl
 
 
- Yes, this is the case.  Well, at least it used to.  When I was teaching
  3000 networks (..'87) in one of HP's Training Centers, HP indeed had a set
  of IP addresses allocated (from whoever at that time was controlling
  world-wide IP-address allocation) for HP's customers' networks --
  from where we (HP) allocated IP addresses.
 
  The procedure used to be for the customer to call the response center
  and the RCE sent an HPDESK message to some desk location -- I think
  it used to be something along the lines of "Network Admin OFFICE/HP6600..."
  located in Cupertino.  One of the things that had to be done at that point
  was that we were provided with a form that had 12 questions on it, including
  company name, size of the network, number of nodes now, estimated size of
  the network in two years from now and so on...  Customers who could live
  with C-class address and 255 nodes/net were then allocated a C-class network
  address by HP's net admin office.  I also think that HP was also handing
  out some B-class addresses but that was quite rare...
 
  I no longer have the forms and am not sure if this procedure is still in
  place.  Maybe your local response center knows - call them.  I did not find
  the above mentioned HPDESK user in HPDESK anymore.
 
Hope this helps,
:-)  Eero Laurila - HP CSY Networking lab, NS services.