Notes from NANOG 83
Presentations on famous Internet outages, Internet control, anycast, and the future of IPv6.
Tag: IPv4
How to connect to the Internet with your own IP addresses and ASNs
Common questions about APNIC membership answered and a walkthrough of the application process.
Opinion: The Internet’s next fifty years
What will be the nature and requirements of networks 50 years from now?
Basic routing concepts, part 4: NATs aren’t evil
The fourth part in this series examines how NATs work and why they have become a necessity.
Basic routing concepts, part 1: Prefixes
Prefixes are fundamental to routing. How do they work?
Storing and retrieving IP prefixes efficiently
Guest Post: Searching for the perfect data structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.
IPv4 in the headlines
How significant is the advertising of US Department of Defense IPv4 address space?
What will happen when the routing table hits 1024k?
Guest post: In 2014, there were problems when the IPv4 Internet routing table hit 512k routes. What will happen when it hits 1024k?
Addressing 2020
Geoff Huston reports on IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2020 and makes some predictions for the future.
BGP in 2020 — BGP Update Churn
Part two of Geoff Huston’s 2020 BGP report investigates whether the stability of the routing system is changing.