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RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Mon Feb 2 17:17:31 2009

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:17:23 WET
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:14:38 +0100
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>:

> > Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than
> > RFC1918 gives you.
> 
> Use IPv6.

For an IPv4 scalability test?  Interesting idea...

Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it
just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repeat all the old mistakes with.

--Johnny


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