[56905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wedgwood)
Fri Mar 21 16:51:23 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:41:41 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: bdragon@gweep.net
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030321171147.17109.qmail@sidehack.sat.gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:11:47PM -0500, bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
> Would you agree, as I've suggested, that there is no inherent
> technical limitation to using 223.255.255.0/24?
FWIW, I still see 'classful behavior' with WindowsXP (all recent
service packs and such like) and also Solaris 2.7 (not sure about
later releases, I'm guessing it's still there though).
My point here is that many years after CIDR we still get weird
anomalies in IP stacks --- so I wouldn't bet on anything being safe
unless well tested.
--cw
