26 Jul
1997
26 Jul
'97
7:22 p.m.
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Eric Germann wrote:
I have a university client with 1200 hosts on 4 subnets. Guess what they've got? A /16. % Utilization: 1.83% % Waste: 98.17% Folks thats 64334 addresses. And we try and jam clients in to blocks of 8 or 16 discrete addresses. Squatters rights I guess :) I've seriously thought of approaching them for their "quality" IP real estate which isn't in the swamp.
sdsu.edu has 2 /16 networks for 35,000 students faculty and staff. total usage on 146.244.0.0 is two machines. % utilization 0.00305 % waste 100% anyone else got a better example? j.