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Subject: Re: reuse of already assigned IP addresses -Reply
From: Ken Hardy <ken @ bridge . com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:04:31 -0600
To: ian @ jerboa . com
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

>Note, however, that this doesn't help you if you merge with a company which
>is also using the same set of RFC1597 addresses.  This is one of the
>problems with the RFC, although some of my customers still use it (even
>after being informed of this), and it *is* better than a random address, IMHO.

Which is why, if you really want to be stubborn/desperate about it, you
might want to choose an address assigned to someone with whom you're
pretty sure you'll never merge (completely different line of business,
e.g.)  IF you could make it work, using a scheme maybe like the one I
mailed in response to this thread, but forgot to cc: to the list (and
don't want to retype.)

Mind you, I'm not recommending it, just pondering engineering
challenges.  (We've safely got our legal class B. :-)

-- KH



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