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Re: IETF - Overlapping IPv4 Address Support


From: Tim Jackson <jackson.tim () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:54:11 -0600

I thought you were gonna read up on the timecube.
On Mar 6, 2012 2:57 PM, "Guru NANOG" <nanog.guru () gmail com> wrote:

Adding four more bits to the Left of the Source Address and setting
those bits to 1111 (0xF) can help to start the migration to "Regions"
and more IPv4 Addresses - Using and Re-Using legacy
spectrumhttp://
www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt

16 /8s for "Future use" - it looks like the "Future" has arrived

240/8  Future use                                     1981-09
         RESERVED    [15]
  241/8  Future use                                     1981-09
            RESERVED    [15]
  242/8  Future use
                                  ...
 253/8  Future use                                     1981-09
          RESERVED    [15]
  254/8  Future use                                     1981-09
            RESERVED    [15]
  255/8  Future use                                     1981-09
            RESERVED  [15]


http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gundavelli-v6ops-community-wifi-svcs-014.13
.
Overlapping IPv4 Address Support Wi-Fi Service Provider may segment the
network into regions. Two regions may use overlap IPv4 address space. This
is particularly important when the Internet is transitioning to IPv6. The
Wi-Fi SP may not have enough unique public IPv4 addresses to globally
address large number of Wi-Fi device.



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