[ale] Can a class-b space be sold? How much?

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Mar 18 12:06:39 EDT 2010


On 03/18/2010 10:14 AM, David Ritchie wrote:
> I have always wondered why companies that merge (HP comes
> immediately to mind from my own experience/familiarity) are sitting
> on huge blocks of IPs that are unused (due to NAT) when in fact they
> could have their networks use 10.x.x.x/8 internally and use public
> facing addresses for machines that actually need them only (my guess
> - less than 1% of machines).

I know that at least one environment that I worked in exhausted their 
10.0.0.0/8 space, and that is why they have an additional /8 on their 
own network for their own machines.  They just firewall the /8 normally.

	--- Mike

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