[100103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Oct 16 20:18:37 2007
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:16:25 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200710162205.l9GM5ovT015052@parsley.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Daniel Senie wrote:
> Given the relative simplicity of the code change to activate 240/4 in
> an IPv4 stack, it's likely all major vendors could have patches out
> for allowing its use in private networks with little risk and little
> expendature of time. It's quite likely such changes could be out a
> very long time before IPv6 stacks in firewalls, routers and hosts
> receive sufficient testing to be deemed safe.
Remind me again how long A.B.C.0 and A.B.C.255 took to be "fixed"
to be usable as IP addresses?
Adrian
