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It may be difficult to understand now, but back in the 90's, addresses were handed out like candy. IBM got their allocation in the late 80's. I worked for a co
by icedchai 5y ago
It may be difficult to understand now, but back in the 90's, addresses were handed out like candy. IBM got their allocation in the late 80's.
I worked for a couple of small and mid-sized companies that had /16's and larger. And we barely used a fraction of that space.
I have a /24, personally, registered back in 1993. It's routed to my home network. I know several other folks who were on the early internet, and had the same.
- jrwr 5y agoOver at a University we run, we like to run like a ISP and only have a /16 to work with, its very tight even now, we have thousands of students using the Wifi, Dorm Networks and such. I do wish we had more.
- digisign 5y agoShouldn't many of those be on NATs?
- detaro 5y agoNo, ISPs shouldn't force users behind NATs.
- digisign 5y agoDuring a shortage, push comes to shove.
- detaro 5y ago> "shouldn't"s are not very useful during shortages. There is an important difference between "it might be necessary to put them behind NATs" and "shouldn't they be on NATs?".
- digisign 5y agoHence the word "many." It's interesting because econ deniers are common at university, haha. In any case, /16 should be enough room to prioritize.
- chocken 5y agoIncorrect. ISPs should use NAT. Users should pay for their own address if they desire.
- lesuorac 5y agoI'd rather the ISP pushed for IPv6.
- birdman914 5y agoWe are at least at the ISP I work for. That is a major project for us this year, but any network engineer can tell you that deploying IPv6 is not straight forward at the ISP level. Getting everyone together on how to have some standard form of addressing from different entities is the toughest lift. Get Juniper, Cisco, and Arista on the phone and you will get three different ways on how to deploy it. You don't want to be the odd duck once the dust settles.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoInteresting. What are the big differences if you're allowed to talk about it? I have no doubt that the IPv6 rollout is difficult, I helped move some simply cloud stuff to IPv6 and even that had a few issues. I'm much happier without the heavy layers of NAT though.
- AviationAtom 5y agoT-Mobile is actually one of the largest users of IPv6
- kart23 5y agodorms and wifi should definitely be NAT. you can always give a public address if someone specifically requests it.
- digisign 5y agoYes, and they help protect as well. The percentage of folks who even ask will be low.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoDo dorms have IPv6? If students can’t run servers, where does the next generation of developers come from?
- kart23 5y agoI tried running a Pi in my college dorm. First, it was NAT, and when I requested a public IP, IT said they didn't give IPs to students. :/ IPv6 would be cool.
- icedchai 5y agoBack the 90's, all the dorms gave students static IPs. The Internet was unfiltered, no firewalls. It was a different time.
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- bluGill 5y agoUsing only a fraction of your assigned IP address space is good and normal. What is bad is ipv4 doesn't have enough space for everyone. Time to move onto ipv6. I don't know how to make that happen.