Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp

Mon Apr 28 23:11:04 UTC 2003

* stephen at sprunk.org (Stephen Sprunk) [Tue 29 Apr 2003, 00:50 CEST]:
> N companies can have up to N(N-1) interconnections, which requires either:
> a) double NAT, with a single address range for all interconnects
> b) no NAT, with a unique address range for each interconnect
> c) very careful management of the RFC1918 space such that no two companies
> talking have a collision
> d) globally unique addresses for each participant using RIRs
> 
> (c) simply doesn't work in reality, (b) is no better than (d), and (a) is
> beyond ugly not to mention incompatible with many apps.

d) is basically having the Internet community pay - both in real money
for staffing at RIRs and in scarce IP address space - for no benefit in
return at all for a function that those N companies should have an
institution perform for them via c).

Regards,

	-- Niels.