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Re: v6 Avian Carriers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Fri Apr 1 13:42:19 2011

From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim5nH=zdd70u2Ogj3k6svZC=vmz_5ouERvMZSxS@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:42:07 +0100
To: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On 1 Apr 2011, at 17:47, Dorn Hetzel wrote:

> I was thinking today would be a good day to write an RFC for =
"fractional DHCP" where end-users can get issued say 1/64 of an v4 IP, =
say 155.229.10.20:1024-2047.  Other users on the same DSLAM, etc behind =
the carrier NAT would have other shares of the same public IP.   :)

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is an attempt at a continuation of the April Fools =
meme, or a serious idea, but this has kind already been thought of. :-)

https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=3D560

It's a nice illustration that the only idea which doesn't suck post =
exhaustion[0], is IPv6. =20

Andy




[0] i.e., now.=


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