Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[Ken A <ka () pacific net>]

Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:22:08 -0400, Ken A <ka () pacific net> wrote:
> > Also, monthly bandwidth monitoring/shaping/capping are more easily 
> > done using one ip per hosted domain...
>
> That's why the infrastructure is "virtualized" and you monitor at or 
> behind the firewall(s) and/or load balancer(s) -- where it *is* one IP 
> per customer.  Sure, it's easier (and cheaper) to be lazy and waste 
> address space than setup a proper hosting network.

I wasn't trying to point towards the 'right way', only adding to the 
list of motivations that are out there, and being discussed here.
As ipv4 gets less cheap, and less easy to obtain, these motivations 
cease. That's a good thing.

Ken


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Ken Anderson
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