Internal Address Space

[Charles Hill]

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I agree.  If you insist on using "private" IPv6 address space that
doesn't route on the internet, why not just use 2002::10.x.x.x to avoid
any conflicts?  -CH

David Kessens wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:39:22AM -0400, David F. Newman wrote:
> >
> > In the old IPv4 days sites would use private address space inside a firewall
> > for either address conservation or just plain old security through obscurity.
> 
> Are you saying that 64-bits/number of hosts on one LAN doesn't give
> you a nice amount of obscurity if you want to try to guess IP
> addressess within a particular /48 ?!? :-)
> 
> > Now that a site can get a /48 to do with as they please is it
> > necessary to use private IP space anymore.
> 
> It has never been necessary or required to use private space for
> anything. That doesn't mean that there are cases where private address
> come handy, for example for home-users who are often a victim of 'a
> little faster than ISDN speed' Internet providers who seem to think
> that customers want PPPoE and charge obscene amounts of money for
> getting a few IP addresses.
> 
> > I am wondering if people out there use public routable IPs on both
> > sides of their firewall.
> 
> Of course, people are doing that. People do that with ipv4 all the
> time too. v6 doesn't really change anything here except that it is
> quite a bit harder to guess somebodies v6 address since there are just
> many more to guess...
> 
> David K.
> ---

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Regards,

Charles Hill
Sr. Network Engineer
Time Warner - Broadband Network Services
Kansas City Regional Data Center

chill@west.rr.com

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