[161649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class E addresses in the wild
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Mar 21 21:19:51 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGSgeyM_j0oTiMyBzv=YqENS_x9BQywAdjKbH+h---3SaA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:19:38 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: "cb.list6" <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, cb.list6 <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am pretty sure Class E is completely defunct and not used anywhere
> since Cisco and Juniper routers do not forward the packets (circa 2008
> testing) and no known host accept it as a valid address, AFAIK.
Both the net and host sides of this are trivially repairable problems,
even for crazy cellphone network operators. As long as you have host
source code and a network vendor you can demand custom patches
from....
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
