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> It also means the timeframe to perform a merger or to integrate an acquired company drops dramatically. This has profound impact on the financial structure of
by 8organicbits 3y ago
> It also means the timeframe to perform a merger or to integrate an acquired company drops dramatically. This has profound impact on the financial structure of the deal which is something that should not be overlooked.
I haven't heard of this issue before. Does anyone know the details? It seems like something a startup would want to consider to make it easiest and quickest to be bought out.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWhat happened for the past decades is that every company used 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/16 for their internal networks, because that was the prescribed private IPv4 space. But if everyone's using identical private address space, on physically separate networks, then you can't merge and route between those networks unless you NAT or renumber everything on them. The equivalent mechanism in IPv6 is Unique Local Addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address and theoretically there should be no overlap or conflict with these addresses, that they can be safely merged together. In fact, some of the impetus has been removed to even use private network space in the first place, such as address space exhaustion, so if a company has been provisioned enough public IPv6 space for their whole network, they didn't even need to use NAT or ULA in the first place.