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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:42:19 -0700
Joe Maimon wrote:
Joe Greco wrote:One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where doing so isn't strictly necessary. When we forget this, it leads us to the same sorts of disasters that we currently have in v4. ... JGAnd if you are encouraging /48 handouts, /32 isnt large enough to prevent that on the global level.
What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says "hey, my /32 is full, I need another one". Will it be: a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun! b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though it was encouraged in the past; try to reclaim some space internally. ~Seth
Current thread:
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Charles Wyble (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Florian Weimer (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Randy Bush (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mark Smith (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mohacsi Janos (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Maimon (May 05)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Seth Mattinen (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Maimon (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Greco (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 05)
- DHCPv6 PD David W. Hankins (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Stephen Sprunk (May 05)