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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:51:19 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rc.firewall by default does not allow nat of private internal addresses?
Message-ID:  <20001031005119.G75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010310323050.18954-100000@jason.argos.org>; from mike@argos.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:31:13AM -0500
References:  <20001031000521.E75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010310323050.18954-100000@jason.argos.org>

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:31:13AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> 
> > a bunch of other nets including 65.0.0.0-95.255.255.255. Unfortunately, 
> > although those blocks _were_ IANA reserved when she made her slides a
> > few months ago, the 65/8 and 66/8 blocks have been allocated for use
> 
> I must chuckle a bit....  (Quiet "chort, snort, gaffaw.")  These are the
> some of the same guys saying that "we're running out of v4 addressing
> space!"....  65/8 - 95/8...  520,093,696 addresses...    :)

We /were/ running out of addresses back in the old days when class A
addresses like those each had to be handed out to a single
entity. Do a 'whois -a 65' to see how many chunks they
broke 65/8 into. Now-a-days with classless routing, there really is no
pressing address shortage...

Now, when every device that has a microprocessor is networked and all
need globally routable addresses to do IPsec AH, then we will have a
problem with IPv4-space.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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