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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses?
Summary: No problem in the foreseeable future.
Message-ID: <207@logicon.arpa>
Date: 29 Nov 88 20:43:27 GMT
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In <8811281821.AA00300@bel.isi.edu> postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>Check page 37 of RFC-1062. There are over 21 million possible network
>numbers.

My calculations give 128 class A networks, 16384 class B networks, and
4194304 class C networks, for a total of about 4.2 million network
numbers.  Some of these are reserved and some (about 1200) are already
registered (okay, listed in the host table).

With 4.2 million network numbers, 115 new network numbers could be
registered every DAY, and it would still take 100 years to exhaust
them all.  It seems that there really isn't a problem in the
foreseeable future.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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