[Sean-Der]

That is awesome, thanks for sharing :) Lots of little details and they all effect each other. I really enjoy networking because of this.

I wonder if we come back to this in 10 years what this number will be. Linux on the desktop and IPv6 is just around the corner...

[mekkkkkk]

Thinking about it, v4 addresses and oil have a lot in common. The exhaustion/depletion is coming, but we keep finding ways to circumvent it. For oil you got fracking and sand. For v4 you see wider adoption of wide/carrier-grade NAT. In both cases it temporarily solves the supply problem really effectively. However it also ruins the environment.