[123302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Mar 4 21:37:30 2010
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:55:26 +0800."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:35:44 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:55:26 +0800, Owen DeLong said:
> So, assuming:
> 1. There are actually 8 million point to point links in the internet
> 2. All of them are currently /30s
> 3. Absolutely optimum use of addresses for all those links
> 4. All of them are converted to /31s
>
> (none of these assumptions is likely in fact)
In particular, if your site has 256 PTP links, you can convert from /30s to /
31s, save 128 IPs, but then trying to *actually use them* effectively outside
your AS ends up sounding like this:
"Eat your Brussel sprouts. Don't you know there's kids starving in Africa"
"OK, you can send my sprouts to them..."
:)
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