[111344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Feb 4 19:03:04 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <f1dedf9c0902041556i5ce9fb57x76c83f1c6393f81f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:02:56 -0500
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On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore
> <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:
>
>> Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used
>> one
>> trillion IP addresses.
>
> Of course they will! A /48 is only the equivalent of 65536
> "networks" (each
> network being a /64). Presuming that ISPs allocate /64 networks to
> each
> connected subscriber, then a /48 is only 65k subscribers, or say
> around a
> maximum of 200k IP addresses in use at any one time (presuming no
> NAT and an
> average of 3-4 IP-based devices per subscriber)
>
> IPv4-style utilization ratios do make some sense under IPv6, but not
> at the
> address level - only at the network level.
First, it was (mostly) a joke.
Second, where did you get 4 users per /64? Are you planning to hand
each cable modem a /64?
--
TTFN,
patrick
