IP Addressing Space Management Applications?

_RiZ_ asks: "I work for a medium sized company and we are looking for a solution to aid in managing the ever complex IP space in use throughout the growing enterprise. We currently use a full class B of public addresses as well as all RFC 1918 ranges. The idea came up to develop this application internally, however this has proven in the past to be more of a headache, especially if the original developer changes roles or moves on from our company. We have looked at IPplan, but have found this program is more intended for an ISP documenting customer ranges rather than an enterprise IT shop. We would like something which is database driven, intuitive to use, and preferably open source, although a good commercial solution is always a viable option. Does anyone have any suggestions?"

10/8 includes 16 million private addresses

[merreborn]

...That's insufficient?

(10/8 = 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255)

Re:My Opinion

[TubeSteak]

You do realize how many address are in a Class B space, don't you?

A smidgen over 65,000.

So if he needs software to track it, it might be that it is hard.

ipv6 needed maybe

[RobertLTux]

if you have a big enough and recent enough set of clients you may want to think about doing an ipv6 conversion (the way i understand it the last 64 bits of the address can be generated using the MAC of the network card so if you know which nic is on a desk then ..)

it all hinges on one word....

[Malor]

The problem is that your question is a bit vague. You want help 'managing' the IP space, but you don't indicate what 'managing' means to you. If you can be clearer about exactly what you want it to do, you'll probably get more useful suggestions.