Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

Tico tico-nanog at raapid.net
Mon Feb 2 18:35:29 UTC 2009


Andre Sencioles Vitorio Oliveira wrote:
> What about this?
>
> Genius from company A chooses public IP block A.
> Genius from company B chooses public IP block A.
>
> Genius collision detected...
That's pretty nasty.
However this should be able to mitigate some of the ugly scenarios 
brought up in this thread:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090127205841

Mind you, proper due-diligence could avoid most of these, and/or 
companies not all choosing to use the default 192.168.{0,1}.0/24 that 
their SOHO Netgear/Linksys router ships configured with.

-Tico
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:06 PM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> Company A uses public IP block A internally. Company B uses public IP
>> block B internally. Company A and B later merge, and connect their
>> networks. No conflict, no renumbering needed (at least not right away).
>>
>> Compare this with company A and B both using overlapping part of for
>> instance 192.168.0.0/16, and then merging. Conflict ensues, renumbering
>> or NATs required in order to connect the networks.
>>
>> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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> Andre Sencioles Vitorio Oliveira
> asenci at gmail.com
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