From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 18 10:32:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10769 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail5.realtime.net (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10764 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gee2@realtime.net) Received: from pit ([205.238.164.35]) by mail5.realtime.net ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:32:30 -600 Message-ID: <367A9FF4.5D0E@realtime.net> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:33:24 -0600 From: George Wenzel Reply-To: gee2@realtime.net Organization: Real/Time Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Vermillion CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aliased IPs References: <199812181418.JAA13567@bilver.magicnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Vermillion wrote: > > George Wenzel recently said: > > > I'm confident the world will never run out of ip addresses. When > > we think we are out, we will learn to multiply. It is really a > > simple engineering problem. > > And at one time no one could see that anyone would ever use the > entire 640K memory address space in a PC. > > The design of the IPv6 is intersting. The there will be enough > IP's so that your toaster and coffee-pot each have their own :-) With working NAT, I can give my toaster a class A... an ip address for every crumb (dynamically reassigned after cleaning the toaster, of course). With working NAT, the IPv4 world could be quite large. If you are saying NAT will never work, that is a different issue. George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message