Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
I'll reply below with //s. My point is still: most companies do not use RFC1918 correctly.
As with say v4 prefix distribution as a whole where you observe that the
number of very large prefix holders is rather small, it's really easy
to say most casually, trivially in fact, that most rfc1918 uses are
single devices with a single subnet behind them. There are a small
number (low tens of thousands instead of low hundreds of millions) of
applications where rfc1918 space feels rather tight, because in fact
it's all going to get used. you don't have to look very far for
operators (what we traditionally thing of as operators represent a chunk
of those applications) chaffing under their 1918 limitations, see for
example this draft which is undoubtedly met with opposition since the
idea has come around before.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shirasaki-isp-shared-addr-00
Your point seemed to be that it is not a large enough allocation of IPs for an
international enterprise of 80K souls. My rebuttal is: 16.5 million IPs isn't
enough?
That is my point, 24 bits is rather tight. The least specific 32 of 96
bits looks like it will continue to work ok for some time...
--p
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 1:31 PM
To: Darden, Patrick S.
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: was bogon filters, now "Brief Segue on 1918"
That's comical thanks. come back when you've done it.
//Ok.
Marshall is correct.
//Ok.
If you'd like to avoid constant renumbering you need a sparser
allocation model. You're still going to have collisions with your
suppliers and acquisitions and some applications (eg labs, factory
automation systems etc) have orders of magnitude large address space
requirements than the number of humans using them implies.
//You used the metric of 80K people. Now you say it is a bad metric when I
reply using it. Your fault, you compound it--you don't provide a better one.
What are we talking about then? 100 IPs per person--say each person has 10
PCs, 10 printers, 10 automated factory machines, 10 lab instruments, 49 servers
and the soda machine on their network? 80,000*100==8 million IP addresses.
That leaves you with 8.5 million.... And that includes 80,000 networked soda
machines. I don't think you have that many soda machines. Even on 5
continents. Even with your growing Asian market, your suppliers, and the whole
marketing team.
In practice indivudal sites might be assigned between a 22 and a 16 with
sites with exotic requirements having multiple assignments potentially
from different non-interconnected networks (but still with internal
uniqueness requirements).
//Err. Doing it wrong does not justify doing it wrong.
