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Yeah, Ford definitely does not need its own block

• rjsw 12y ago
  Ford has as much reason as anyone else to need a block. Consider subcontractors needing to connect to servers in a particular department.
  • mikeash 12y ago
    Ford has an entire /8, a significant chunk of the entire address space. Ford does not have as much reason to need that much address space compared to, say, major ISPs.
    • rjsw 12y ago
      I would argue that Ford (and the other multinationals) have more need of an /8 than any university that is just in a single city.
      • hrrsn 12y ago
        A /8 is 16,777,216 addresses. Ford has 181,000 employees as of 2013 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company). That's very roughly 92 publicly routable IP addresses per employee. I highly doubt they need that many.
        • icefox 12y ago
          What about 1 per car?
          • mikeash 12y ago
            In practice, I imagine they'd outsource the internet connectivity bit to cellular carriers (as is the case for OnStar and similar at the moment) and those companies would be the ones to worry about provisioning IP addresses.
            • blueskin_ 12y ago
              This, plus the IPs mobile networks use are all heavily NATed anyway.
              • hrrsn 12y ago
                Perfect use case for IPv6 anyway.
      • mikeash 12y ago
        I would agree, and say that universities with an entire /8 probably shouldn't have them anymore either. That's a case where it definitely made sense early on, but stopped making sense quite a while ago.
        • justincormack 12y ago
          Imperial College had two as the computer science department had its own /8. Probably still does.
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• icedchai 12y ago
  Who doesn't? I have my own /24 - registered back in the early 90's.