[181153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Wed Jun 17 17:41:30 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org, "Luan Nguyen" <lnguyen@opsource.net>,
luan.nguyen@dimensiondata.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:38:23 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADR+d4b4AZXGy4BvcemXsGrdMFmJ598XX27NZpj8hz7X871ykg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:07:25 -0400, Luan Nguyen <lnguyen@opsource.net>
wrote:
> Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it?
> Just for NATTING on Cisco gears...
As you've already figured out, Class E space is still restricted on Cisco
gear.
I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class E
was "abandoned" by ARIN. (short answer: too much broken crap thinks it's
multicast!)
