🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴@crazypeople.online to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBoth Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses eachen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square59linkfedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down13
arrow-up1271arrow-down1external-linkBoth Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses eachen.wikipedia.org 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴@crazypeople.online to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square59linkfedilink
minus-squareChris@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·2 days agoI see now why we were predicted to run out of IPv4 addresses, and also why we don’t appear to have actually run out of them yet. Although why they still have such massive ranges of IPs is crazy.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 days agoWell we kind of ran out. But carriers just did more natting to reduce residential customers to client only, or have real ipv6 addresses
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoTechnically no. Every household here gets a unique public IP address with an option of turning on a second Public IP if you want it, so there are still IPs available.
minus-square 🏴حمید پیام عباسی🏴@crazypeople.onlineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoThose public IPs are all owned by the ISP not the household. You couldn’t create a new ISP and easily get a block of IPV4 to assign.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·2 days agoI understand, I mean if we had Run Out they wouldn’t allow you 1 or 2 they’d be using CGNAT
I see now why we were predicted to run out of IPv4 addresses, and also why we don’t appear to have actually run out of them yet.
Although why they still have such massive ranges of IPs is crazy.
Well we kind of ran out. But carriers just did more natting to reduce residential customers to client only, or have real ipv6 addresses
We ran out in 2015
Technically no. Every household here gets a unique public IP address with an option of turning on a second Public IP if you want it, so there are still IPs available.
Those public IPs are all owned by the ISP not the household. You couldn’t create a new ISP and easily get a block of IPV4 to assign.
I understand, I mean if we had Run Out they wouldn’t allow you 1 or 2 they’d be using CGNAT