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Hi, virgiliomi;608241 Wrote: > > And by the way... just because all of the IPv4 blocks have been handed > out to the regional NICs doesn't mean that EVERY address is in use as > of yesterday. Keep in mind that EVERY class A (/8)is 16.5 million IP > addresses... APNIC just received three of those (the last two that > could be requested, as well as a third that was part of the automatic > distribution). That 49+ million IP addresses will likely allow them to > get through most of this year, if not into next year. Similarly, the > other regional NIC's likely have more than a few smaller blocks of > addresses still available, in addition to the 16.5 million that they > each just received. > Here's an interesting graph of the timeframe when the RIRs are expected to run out of addrsses: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg And if there is one thing that the different predictions have shown, is that usually it actually happens earlier then what the predections models show. Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. -- krbonne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ krbonne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
