On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 4:32 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 04:04:43 -0800, Owen DeLong said: > > Please explain to me how you uniquely number 40M endpoints with RFC-1918 > without running out of > > addresses and without creating partitioned networks. > > OK.. I'll bite. What network design needs 40M endpoints and can't tolerate > partitioned networks? There's eyeball networks out there that have that > many > endpoints, but they end up partitioned behind multiple NAT boxes. > > Why would you assume partitioning is an acceptable design constraint ? I don’t think the cellular networks in the USA, each with over a 100M subscribers, wants their customers partitioned, and that is why the IMS / SIP on each modern phone is exclusively ipv6, afaik
