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Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:50:56 -0500
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <ADE1A7A6-7177-4C77-8023-60058FDF076B () ianai net>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" writes:On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Anthony Roberts wrote:Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon.It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address spaceto play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the address as flags for things. Suddenly you find yourself using a prefixthat should enough for a decent sized country in a half-rack. It's only slightly harder to imagine a /48 being wasted like that.Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used onetrillion IP addresses. -- TTFN, patrickBut they will when you will exceeded 65536 networks.
Which is exactly what they should do - actually before that one would hope. This is not the "$200/hour chcklehead consultant"'s fault, that is the design.
Don't you love the idea of using 18446744073709551616 IP addresses to number a point-to-point link?
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space, (continued)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 02)
- RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Johnny Eriksson (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 02)
- RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Michael Hallgren (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Nathan Ward (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Randy Bush (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Anthony Roberts (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 03)
- IPv6 space (was: RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space ) Deepak Jain (Feb 03)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Stephen Sprunk (Feb 02)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 03)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Trey Darley (Feb 03)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Heather Schiller (Feb 03)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW) Scott Howard (Feb 04)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW) Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 04)
- Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW) Seth Mattinen (Feb 04)
- v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 04)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Howard C. Berkowitz (Feb 04)