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Re: IANA reserved Address Space

  • From: Joel Jaeggli
  • Date: Fri May 30 21:12:14 2003


On Fri, 30 May 2003, Gerald wrote:
> 
> RFC1918 is a set number of IP addresses. If you are working on a private
> network lab that will be on the internet eventually or have parts on the
> internet and exceeds the total number of IPV4 addressing set aside in
> RFC1918, and IPV6 private addressing is not an option, what can you do? (I
> know it's a stretch, but I think it asks specifically what Brennan wants
> to know and what I'm curious about now)

As a related question I guess I'd ask what sort of simulation requires
more than 16.7 million discreet ipv4 adresses (1/256 of the whole) in
order too simulate a reasonable subset of the whole ipv4 internet.

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