IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
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Re: IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
#2I don't think my router even supports IPv6. This is going to be -such- a fun transition.
I really thought people would get serious about it 2 years ago.
Re: IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
#3Will it be auctioned on eBay?
Re: IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
#4Every host on an IP network, from servers to personal computers to networked printers, is assigned an IP address, a unique identifying number that is used to communicate with other hosts on the same network, or globally.
This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses, even if the network is connected to the global internet.
Should not the TC crowd be a little more computer savvy than this?
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#5Every host on an IP network, from servers to personal computers to networked printers, is assigned an IP address, a unique identifying number that is used to communicate with other hosts on the same network, or globally. This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses, even if the network is connected to the global internet. Should not the TC crow…
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Re: IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011
#6I don't think my router even supports IPv6. This is going to be -such- a fun transition. I really thought people would get serious about it 2 years ago.
It would be fixed with firmware updates in an ideal world.
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#7Haven't we been told that IPv4 will run out "next year" for the past couple of years?
I mean, yeah, it's a legitimate concern and all, but if you keep crying wolf...
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#8Every host on an IP network, from servers to personal computers to networked printers, is assigned an IP address, a unique identifying number that is used to communicate with other hosts on the same network, or globally. This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses, even if the network is connected to the global internet. Should not the TC crow…
> This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses
A device connected to a LAN in someone's house will often just have a private IP and go through a NAT for its internet access.
However many big organisations will have been allocated a large address space at some point, often the size of a Class B. Their machines internally will often use a global IP address. The printers I use at university have their own public IPs. I'm guessing that's not unusual.
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#9There are a lot of addresses that should be 'reclaimed' . These days, most enterprises really only need a few public addresses, and many of them are 'sitting on' large chunks of addresses they acquired in the 90s.
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#10I don't think my router even supports IPv6. This is going to be -such- a fun transition. I really thought people would get serious about it 2 years ago.
Devices that don't support IPv6, or don't have IPv6 enabled, will just share an IPV4 address in a NAT pool at the ISP level. It's not pretty but it works.