Whatever happened to NAT? Jeff
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> wrote: > Dear list, > > Since IPv4 exhaustion is an increasingly serious and timely topic > lately, I would like to point out something that interests me, and maybe > everyone else who will be spending a lot on Tylenol and booze when we > really do run out of v4 IPs. > > I have trouble understanding why an ARIN record for a network regularly > receiving new, out-sized IPv4 allocations on the order of millions of > addresses at once would publish a remark like the one below, indicating > that Verizon Wireless has about 2 million IPs allocated. > > OrgName: Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless > CIDR: 97.128.0.0/9 > Comment: Verizon Wireless currently has 44.3 Million > Comment: subscribers with 2.097 Million IP addresses allocated. > RegDate: 2008-04-14 > > This may be unscientific and full of error, but if you add up all the > IPs behind AS6167, you get a pretty big number, about 27 million. If I > make more dangerous assumptions, I might argue that a network with a > need for 2 million IPs, at the time this /9 was handed out, already had > about 19 million. Then it received 8 million more. > > Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. It's reasonable to assume > that virtually all cell phones will eventually have an IP address almost > all the time. But that isn't the case right now, and the ARIN is in the > business of supplying its members with six months worth of addresses. > If everyone is expected to run out and buy a new phone and start using > "the Google" right away, and stay on it all the time, maybe cellular > operators really need a lot more IP addresses. If not, why does Verizon > Wireless have 27 million IPs when the above comment indicates they need > only a tenth of that? > > - j > > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.
