[Cerowrt-devel] Wicked OT: 240.0.0.0/4 netblock

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Fri Oct 19 15:04:40 EDT 2018


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.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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