[ppml] Legacy /24s
Paul Vixie
paul at vix.com
Sun Sep 2 00:43:07 EDT 2007
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> > Your numbers also only account for the hardware cost. [...] > > In short, I'm afraid your estimate is WAY low on cost per device. > > They don't account for the electricity cost for running the > power-hungry TCAMs and the required air conditioning capacity either. > Nor do they exclude the cost attribution associated with the routers' > traffic capacity and age-related upgrades rather than route capacity. i think that as with dotcomenomics, we're expected to grow our way outta this. > I pulled out and leafed through my old "Internet Protocol Next Generation" > book from 1997. Do you realize just how few of the design goals have panned > out operationally? Its appalling. yes, it is. but from a policy standpoint, that doesn't matter. we're going to run out of new ipv4 soon, and there are three ways to jump: 1. stop growing the network 2. dramatically increase NATism 3. use IPv6 of the three, i like #4. of the three we actually have, though, i pick #3.
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