From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "Richard E. Brown" <richb.hanover@gmail.com>,
cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Wicked OT: 240.0.0.0/4 netblock
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:13:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw6Wg2ZHmTYsMYpgGjEr-MRbAbnAhTyog0gn1NC4epNXmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <120626.1539976181@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:09 PM <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:53:21 -0700, Dave Taht said:
> > An attempt to make "E" useful died a decade ago:
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fuller-240space-02
> >
> > Still, it would be a better world with 268m more routable ips in it,
> > wouldn't it?
>
> Not really. That ship sailed long ago - class E space is effectively useless
> until a large percentage of systems are upgraded to support it. And if you're
> going to be upgrading all the CPE and ISP hardware/software *anyhow*, you may
> as well enable and use IPv6 and get a lot more than 268M routable addresses for
> the effort.
the thing really POing me is not getting static ipv6 addrs. ipv4 nat
is useful for internal services. Until that day I can get a ipv6/48 PI
from comcast I'm gonna be unhappy.
> And its presence in bogon lists will make it quite the whack-a-mole challenge.
> Those of us who have been around for a while can remember all the fun when 8/8
> and 12/8 were no longer bogons. And the net was a lot smaller then, with a lot
> fewer moles that needed whacking.
what worked for 8 was to put some essential services on it, eventually. 8.8.8.8.
--
Dave Täht
CTO, TekLibre, LLC
http://www.teklibre.com
Tel: 1-831-205-9740
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-19 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-19 18:36 Rich Brown
2018-10-19 18:53 ` Dave Taht
2018-10-19 19:09 ` valdis.kletnieks
2018-10-19 19:13 ` Dave Taht [this message]
2018-10-19 18:54 ` Jonathan Morton
2018-10-19 19:04 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1810191115190.4973@nftneq.ynat.uz>
2018-10-21 16:26 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
[not found] ` <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1810211541180.4351@qynat-yncgbc>
2018-10-22 9:05 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2018-11-15 3:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
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