Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to...
by jandrese on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:13PM
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You don't have to use every address in 10.0.0.0/8 to effectively fill it up. If your corporate policy is to assign a /16 to each floor of a building, and you have a LOT of buildings it's pretty easy to fill up the space even if most of the /16s are sparsely populated. It's much easier to move on to the 11. space when you build that new building that pushes you over than renumbering your entire corporate LAN.
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Re:Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to...
by xxpor on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:15AM
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Right, but that's not relevant for 1:1 NAT (well, at least it doesn't have to be). Since the NAT would happen in software, you're no longer constrained by subnets being physically under routers. 11.2.3.0/24 could contain 10.0.1.0/24 and 10.128.128.0/24 without any issues, assuming they don't use in total more than 256 address.