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If all of the users share the same /24 they can use all 254 IP Addresses.
by zakki 4y ago
If all of the users share the same /24 they can use all 254 IP Addresses.
- sgjohnson 4y agoYes, but how would you move the remaining addresses elsewhere? With a tunnel?
- londons_explore 4y agoYeah. Effectively set up a VPN/tunnel service and give credentials to each 'ip-holder'. With more cost and complexity, that /254 could be anycasted to avoid it being single-homed too.
- sgjohnson 4y agoSo you'd basically be running a static IP VPN service, where users would have to pay upfront for the IP, and then pay a monthly fee. How is this going to be competetive? You can get a Elastic IP from AWS for $3.50 per month when not in use, $0 when in use, and the cheapest EC2 instance is $3/month. And there'd be no $50 upfront cost per IP.
- toast0 4y agoIf you route the addresses as /32s, you can use all 256. But you should probably give a discount to the .0 and .255 customers because there's some dumb devices out there that will drop traffic to addresses with last byte of zero or all ones (a misguided attempt to stop smurfing)