No shortage of IP addresses
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 25, 2003 at 3:09:28 PM
Awhile back I posted some news about a shortage of IP shortages in Asia. It seems those allegations are false.
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He said that around five blocks of "slash eight," or /8, addresses are consumed worldwide each year. Each block allows for 16 million host addresses. There are 100 blocks still available in the current IPv4 (IP version 4) system--enough for 20 years, or perhaps fewer when 3G, or third-generation, phones take off, but certainly more than the two years predicted by doomsayers, he said.