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Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support
From: Randy Whitney <randy.whitney () verizon com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:09:23 -0500
On 3/6/2012 3:57 PM, Guru NANOG wrote:
Adding four more bits to the Left of the Source Address and setting those bits to 1111 (0xF) can help to start the migration to "Regions" and more IPv4 Addresses - Using and Re-Using legacy spectrumhttp://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt 16 /8s for "Future use" - it looks like the "Future" has arrived 240/8 Future use 1981-09 RESERVED [15] 241/8 Future use 1981-09 RESERVED [15] 242/8 Future use ... 253/8 Future use 1981-09 RESERVED [15] 254/8 Future use 1981-09 RESERVED [15] 255/8 Future use 1981-09 RESERVED [15] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gundavelli-v6ops-community-wifi-svcs-014.13. Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Wi-Fi Service Provider may segment the network into regions. Two regions may use overlap IPv4 address space. This is particularly important when the Internet is transitioning to IPv6. The Wi-Fi SP may not have enough unique public IPv4 addresses to globally address large number of Wi-Fi device.
Please tell me this is a poor attempt at humor. -- Randy.
Current thread:
- IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Guru NANOG (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Randy Whitney (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Justin M. Streiner (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Scott Morris (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Jimmy Hess (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support David Conrad (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Randy Bush (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support David Conrad (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Tim Jackson (Mar 06)
- Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Bjørn Mork (Mar 07)