[111241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Mon Feb 2 13:03:53 2009
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:59:35 -0500
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20090202.184442.104091625.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:44:42 +0100 (CET)
sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > How does that help? If you are renumbering due to a merger, couldn't
> > you just agree on separate private space just as easily?
>
> It would ensure that you could get the networks to communicate, without
> IP address conflicts, *before* you started any renumbering.
Can you expand? I assume that everyone understand VPNs so connecting
over the Internet is not the issue. If you pick a public IP block you
still have to agree on that block. How is using a public block
different than agreeing on a private one?
I apologize if I'm just being dense this morning.
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