So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by teddyh on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:30PM (#16916241)

As far as I understand the situation, it would be pointless to chase “unused” address ranges and try to claw them back because:

1. It would be technically very difficult, and old equipment is frequently hardcoded.

2. With the rate the allocations are going, you’d get maybe an additional few months or a couple of years out of this enormous effort. After that, all the addresses really would be allocated, and now what do you do?

Considering the huge effort, technical and political, it would take to do such a thing, it is easier to just adopt IPv6.

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by mabbo on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:27PM (#16917206)

> old equipment is frequently hardcoded.

> it is easier to just adopt IPv6

Old hardware won't work with IPv6 either. I'm not saying your wrong, just that while easier IPv6 still isn't what I'd call an easy option.

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by xhrpost on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:49PM (#16916434)

Yes this, we were blowing through a /8 every couple months in the past, haven't checked recently but might even be faster now. The parent argument comes up in every one of these threads.

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by sciurus on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:16PM (#16916684)

This article is about "blowing through" the last available /8, which due to new rules took five and a half years instead of a few months.

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