Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project
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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

  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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