Re: [ILUG-BOM] Netmask

[Philip S Tellis]

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Sometime on Jun 22, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say:

> Currently, we have about 4 billion addresses. ipv6 increases this by a

4 billion in theory.  But because of indiscriminate allocation of subnets
early on, most of the IP addresses have gone to waste.  Theoretically,
IPv4 should be able to hold out for another 10 years - provided there is
no wastage.  But there is, so it's estimated to run out in another 2-3
years.

What's more, if java's promise lives out, we'll have everything but the
kitchen sink having its own IP address.  I think masquerading will help us
there.

Philip

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