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So, in the speeds ipv4 was handed out before they ran out, how long would two /8s last? Weeks? Months? You'd be able to slack on moving to ipv6 for those weeks,
by IcePic 7y ago
So, in the speeds ipv4 was handed out before they ran out, how long would two /8s last? Weeks? Months?
You'd be able to slack on moving to ipv6 for those weeks, months. Whee.
- 300bps 7y agoThe last two /8s were handed out in January of 2011 so quite a bit longer than weeks or months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Address_depletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Addres... Entire networks of computers can share a single public IP address so the 33.5 million public IP addresses supplied by two /8s could last quite a long time. Or we can let Ford sit on them.
- mfro 7y agoFord? is there a listing of what companies own the largest blocks? EDIT: just found it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
- IcePic 7y agoSo given the rate at the time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#/media/File:Rir-rate.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#/media... with some 1M ips given out PER DAY, how long would two /8s last? 4 weeks, or 33 days. That is not "quite a bit longer", it is literally what I suggested. It is only now, long after the crunch that thinking entire networks would share a single ip (hopefully never running any SIP,bittorrent or something that needs more than one port simultaneously) or the entire network would quickly run out of the 64k ports usable... So, if Ford and whoever had that second net did give it back when it started to get scarce, all of 33 days is what we would have "won". Good margin for writing up that ipv6 migration plan I guess.