Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing
Harald Koch
chk at pobox.com
Mon Dec 18 19:34:29 UTC 2017
On 17 December 2017 at 17:48, Tom Carter <m1enrage at gmail.com> wrote:
> RFC1918 isn't big enough to cover all use cases. Think about a large
> internet service providers. If you have ten million customers, 10.0.0.0/8
> would be enough to number modems, but what happens when you need to number
> video set top boxes and voice end points? I don't think anyone goes out and
> says "Lets go use someone else's space, because I don't want to use this
> perfectly good private space".
>
:cough:
They could use IPv6. I mean, if the mobile phone companies can figure it
out, surely an ISP can...
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Harald
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