[100122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Oct 17 22:51:54 2007
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:48:32 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "Church, Charles" <cchurc05@harris.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <FA1BA229357DB640B944218F3585FECA48621F@mspe2k1.cs.myharris.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Asking the whole internet to support 240/4 is going to tie up
> valuable resources that would be far better off working on IPv6. Keep
> in mind that it's not just software patches. Software vendors don't do
> stuff for free. I doubt ISPs are going to pay huge amounts of money to
> support a peer crazy enough to try this. And until tested, there is no
> guarantee that hardware based routing platforms (your PFCs, etc) can
> route Class E addresses as if they're unicast.
So how about pulling a reachability test and announcing a few /19's from
240/4, stick a website on it and get people to report back?
Adrian
