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Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 13:15:59
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
1996  1997    1998    1999    2000    2001    2002    2003    2004    2005
2.7   1.2     1.6     1.2     2.1     2.4     1.9     2.4     3.4     4.5

(The numbers represent the number of addresses used up in that year  
as a percentage of the 3.7 billion total usable IPv4 addresses.)

Those years where the growth was smaller than the year before never  
happened twice or more in a row.

This basically means that unless things take a radical turn, the long- 
term trend is accelerating growth so that remaining 40% will be gone  
in less than 9 years. Probably something like 7, as Geoff Huston  
predicts.


        This is much less time than I have seen in previous reports. If
this is accurate and consistent there is a greater problem than I had
previously thought.
        If that is indeed the case then the "enhanced nat" road for ipv6
begins to make much more sense, even in the nearer term.

        Austin

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