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IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready
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| 2/22/2008
| kdawson
Posted on 02/23/2008 7:31:56 AM PST by sionnsar
An anonymous reader writes
"We've known for ages that IPv4 was going to run out of addresses — now, it's happening. IPv6 was going to save us — it isn't. The upcoming crisis will hit, perhaps as soon as 2010, but nobody can agree on what to do. The three options are all pretty scary. This article covers the background, and links to a presentation by Randy Bush (PDF) that shows the reality of the problem in stark detail."
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: ohnoez
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:31:58 AM PST
by
sionnsar
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:32:30 AM PST
by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
These sorts of claims have been around since the 1990s. None of them have ever come to pass.
See IPv4 - How long have we got? (written 5 years ago...the last time these claims of imminent IPv4 address exhaustion were kicked up).
As the author of the piece mentions, "Predicting the future is easy. The hard bit is getting it right."
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:38:24 AM PST
by
Digital Sniper
(Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:10:00 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Digital Sniper
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:24:43 AM PST
by
Justa
(Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
To: Justa
NAT nets will save us. NAT nets have staved off the crisis so far, but it was an expedient all along.
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posted on
02/23/2008 9:39:32 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: Justa
More cowbell .. er .. NAT!
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posted on
02/23/2008 10:19:19 AM PST
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: sionnsar
NATs are good, but the real problem are all the Class-A nets that were assigned freely in the early years and are now sparsely populated.
The simplest solution is to make better use of the IPv4 we have.
"We will take octets away from you for the common good."
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posted on
02/23/2008 1:39:43 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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