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Re: legacy /8
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 23:11:09 -0700 (PDT)
With all that bitching about IPv6 how come nobody wrote an RFC for a very simple solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem: Step 1: specify an IP option for extra "low order" bits of source & destination address. Add handling of these to the popular OSes. Step 2: make NATs which directly connect extended addresses but also NAT them to non-extended external IPs. Step 3: leave backones unchanged. Gradually reduce size of allocated blocks forcing people to NAT as above. Step 4: watch people migrating their apps to extended addresses to avoid dealing with NAT bogosity and resulting tech support calls & costs. Step 5: remove NATs. --vadim
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- Re: legacy /8, (continued)
- Re: legacy /8 Larry Sheldon (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Andrews (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 David Conrad (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Randy Bush (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 David Barak (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Vadim Antonov (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Adrian Chadd (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Dan White (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Zaid Ali (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Vadim Antonov (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Zaid Ali (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 joel jaeggli (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 James Hess (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 Stephen Repetski (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 Frank Bulk (Apr 03)