 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand
 ·Cybersurf Intern..
| Too many privately held Class A addresses What kills me is that everyone runs around saying we are running out of IP addresses.
Really?
Lets see from 1.x to 10.x
4 are reserved
the 3.x IP range is given to GE (do they really need an entire Class A address?)
Level 3 has 3 complete Class A addresses
The DOD has 2 Class A addresses
IBM has entire class A address
Now I'm not saying take all the privately held Class A address space away, but unless I've done the math wrong we have 42,282,506,250 addresses available in just the 1-10.x Ip range.
thats 42 BILLION |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | Your math is completely wrong. The maximum number of addresses for IPv4 is just above 4 billion. Attempting to recliam some netblocks would only be a very short term workaround and only benefit North Americans, there are other countries where IP addresses are necessary and in very short supply. |
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 Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
kudos:2 | reply to elwoodblues
elwood: 10*255*255*255 would be the usable IP space =
165,813,750 |
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 | Technically it's 10*256*256*256 (0 and 255 are both valid) - but that really doesn't change the situation that much from the numbers you posted. |
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 McLovinChicka chicka yeahPremium
join:2005-06-12
Fairbanks, AK
 ·GCI.net
| said by espaeth:Technically it's 10*256*256*256 (0 and 255 are both valid) - but that really doesn't change the situation that much from the numbers you posted. Depending on how you want to VLSM it out, if 1-10 was going to be one monster network, or if each 1-10 was going to be 10 seperate class A addresses, which would be my assumption considering the existing usage. the correct math would 256 cubed minus 2 for each class A subnet. Minus two being for network and broadcast IDs. 16,777,214 IPv4 addresses per /8 class a subnet. |
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