[gfaster]

Related anecdote, my (small) school had acquired a /16 way back and so today, every single device on the network gets its own public ipv4. It was an absolute mess for security (imagine a small army of first year CS majors setting up each a Raspberry Pi) but it was kinda fun being able to experiment with servers without having to worry about NAT.

[ehPReth]

they could just firewall inbound connections and have some sort of request/interface to allow certain/all ports whilst keeping everything lovely about public v4 though, yeah?

[mark-wagner]

A long, long time ago my (large) school had 2 /16s and a bunch of /24s and every device--including those in the medical center--got a public, internet accessible IP address. https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/networks-con...