RE: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

Did they ever explain why? Did the SMC function as a router, and act as the customer side of a stub network that allowed that /29 to hang off the router? If that was the case, and the Motorola D3 modem was L2-only, that might explain the change in capability. Frank -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Kalnozols, Andris Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 9:29 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion <snip> My experience as a Comcast Business customer with a /29 IPv4 subnet was that swapping out the SMC modem/router for an IPV6-capable Motorola DOCSIS 3 modem meant that I could no longer have the /29. Andris