[111280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Mon Feb 2 21:01:57 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.91.0.1233613043.bygg@nic.cafax.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:01:50 +1300
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On 3/02/2009, at 12:17 PM, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> 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.
Not quite..
2^96 = 79228162514264337593543950336
2^128-2^32 = 340282366920938463463374607427473244160
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Nathan Ward
