When will IPv4 IP addresses be exhausted?

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• Ole_Juul Member

  January 2017

  ethancedrik said: Anyone on Comcast Cable in the US gets like 3 IPv6s I think

  generous

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• Janevski Member

  January 2017

  ethancedrik said: Anyone on Comcast Cable in the US gets like 3 IPv6s I think

  Ole_Juul said: generous

  

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• qps Member, Host Rep

  January 2017

  southy said: I believe that is just the point: there is enough IPv4 space - in theory. None of Ford's industrial robots need to have a public IP if they aren't publically routed (and there is no reason why they should be and much reason why they shouldn't). Same goes for the vast majority of spaces in the other old /8. Not all, but most.

  The issue is that Ford interfaces with hundreds if not thousands of suppliers. The reason they use their own /8 for their internal IP addresses is so that there are not IP conflicts between Ford and their suppliers with RFC 1918 space usage. It would take a very, very large financial incentive to get them to consider moving to RFC 1918 and then having to deal with conflicts with suppliers.
• rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

  January 2017

  ethancedrik said: Anyone on Comcast Cable in the US gets like 3 IPv6s I think

  That's not correct, at Comcast you get up to a /60 subnet of IPv6.

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• elgs Member

  January 2017 edited January 2017

  @rm_ said:

  ethancedrik said: Anyone on Comcast Cable in the US gets like 3 IPv6s I think

  That's not correct, at Comcast you get up to a /60 subnet of IPv6.

  Just checked my router, I even got a /56 on my home router from Cox.