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I've seen companies request blocks of addresses solely to enable remote access to their workstations, when a single address could do the job (with port mapping
by Sidnicious 16y ago
I've seen companies request blocks of addresses solely to enable remote access to their workstations, when a single address could do the job (with port mapping or a VPN).
As individuals, there's not much we can do. IP addresses are cheap, and business won't care how scarce they are until it affects the bottom line.
- viraptor 16y agoIf they're doing it now, it might be a good decision. Next time their request for IPs is denied, they will move remote access behind nat, or to a single ip and get new IPs "for free". It's a much better situation than suddenly finding out your request is denied and you can't scale down, because you've got your current ranges tightly packed. It will affect the bottom line much more in that case (deployment delays, higher prices, etc.)
- tamberg 16y agoA possible solution to make a work station, mobile or embedded device accessible (over HTTP) without a public IP address is using a relay server like http://yaler.org/ http://yaler.org/