<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:46 PM Töma Gavrichenkov <<a href="mailto:ximaera@gmail.com">ximaera@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:25 AM Martin Hannigan <<a href="mailto:hannigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">hannigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> From my perspective, there is no IPv4 exhaustion or<br>
> shortage. Anyone can get almost anything they need<br>
> on the transfer market.<br>
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That depends on the size of your network. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Let me repeat what I wrote:<br></div><div><br></div>>> Granted, the shorter the prefix the harder it gets</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">That depends on the size of your network.Through an abuse-proof<br>
pile-up of resource-exhausting CGNATs, always.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The folks buying up large swaths of previously un or underused IPv4 are not using CGNAT. I am not positive that networks buying /24's are using CGNAT. It may be a red herring. It would be interested to see some data. In the end it does not matter. <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It takes only a few (3 to 6) iterations of designing your IPv6 address<br>
plan to admit how s_tty your IPv4 addressing habits are, and I'm not<br>
speaking of serial TTYs here just for you to be sure.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Luckily for us /etc/ttys is ubiquitous.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>-M<</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>