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=560 It's a nice illustration that the only idea which doesn't suck post exhaustion[0], is IPv6. Andy [0] i.e., now.
