On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:44:58PM -0500, Ricky Beam wrote:
[...] I've lived quite productively behind a single IPv4 address for nearly 15 years. I've run 1000 user networks that only used one IPv4 address for all of them. I have 2 private /24's using a single public IPv4 address right now -- as they have been for 6+ years. Yet, in the new order, you're telling me I need 18 billion, billion addresses to cover 2 laptops, a Wii, 3 tivos, a router, and an access point?
Thank you. Your ability to live with proxied/NATed Internet access has helped stave off the problems we're seeing now. The flip side shows up when Nintendo creates a cool new protocol for the Wii that requires Internet access. You Wii won't be able to participate until you teach your proxy/NAT box about the new protocol. I might not need a /96 for my razor, but I *do* want to have address space that allows more than one thing in my house to participate fully in use of the Internet. I have a group of gear at my house that can live in a NATted environment. Those things get RFC-1918 space, and live happily. I also have a /28 for laptops, VOIP gear, etc. -- I *like* those things to have Internet access rather than proxy-access. I have v6 space as well. I'm awaiting the day that I can get it from any common provider.