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by dijit 67 days ago
I think its incredibly ironic actually. The place where IPs are burned through rapidly (internal) is forced to use v4. (and, potentially even a subset of it, RFC1918; likely conflicting with some large company or service if they decide to plumb it together later- or you burn publicly accessible IPs in the limited address space)

But the one interface that touches the internet can use v6: the one with a functionally infinite address space.

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GCP encourages customers to use Class E (240.0.0.0/4) as internal IPs. That helps.

What I am building won’t exhaust that, but I hear some customers are blowing through even that.

PSC has a builtin NAT. That also helps stitch things together.

… or we can have ipv6.