From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Rich Brown <richb.hanover@gmail.com>
Cc: cerowrt-devel <cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Wicked OT: 240.0.0.0/4 netblock
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:04:40 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1810192103120.26856@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A83722D3-AED3-484E-A25C-946C5237B2C5@gmail.com>
On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, Rich Brown wrote:
> MY QUESTION: I have always believed that this netblock is not routable.
> Is this true? (A simple yes/no answer would be sufficient.)
Most host stacks do not handle 240/4 correctly. Getting this working
outside of a very closed and controlled network is not feasible.
You would need to validate all devices to support this 240/4 block that
most IP stacks today will not use.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-19 19:04 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
2018-10-19 18:54 ` Jonathan Morton
2018-10-19 19:04 ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]
[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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