[57997] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS)
Tue Apr 29 02:28:29 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:27:09 -0500
From: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" <billstewart@att.com>
To: <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
[Let's try this again without fat-fingering the Send button :-)]
Seems like an obvious case for using IPv6.
RFC2373 site-local addresses assign a /48,=20
with 16 bits of subnet ID and 64 bits of host ID.
The average location probably doesn't have 2**16 extranets on one DMZ;
picking a random value usually yields one that nobody you're talking to=20
is also talking to, so almost nobody needs to use NAT for this kind of =
thing,
assuming you plan to tunnel them.
