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ISP & Network guru with 15 years experience in the ISP field.

 

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IANA IPV4 Address pool dips below 10%

From the arin-announce list this morning

With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.

Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 06-Sep-2011

Iana released a statement saying the unallocated IPv4 address pool will be exhausted come September 2011.

Natting at each POP

As IPV4 space becomes more and more scarce small operators are faced how to make their IP space stretch as far as they can.  One way to do this in a routed WISP environment is to do NAT translation on a per pop basis.  I have put together a Visio diagram to illustrate this.

The router [...]

New APNIC Ips

APNIC to make allocations from 175/8 and 182/8 soon
In August 2009, APNIC received two IPv4 address blocks from IANA. These
were:
– 175/8
– 182/8
APNIC will soon be allocating from these prefixes.