On Tuesday 21 August 2007 02:47:16 ext Mark Andrews wrote:
Mark Andrews writes:
Cable companies need this amount of address space for
controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public
addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer.
One of which can easily be an IPv6 address, so allocating 240/x for this
would seem to cater to those people who can and will modify their
devices to accept 240/4, but cannot or will not give them IPv6 ability.
That assumes that they won't work with those addresses today.
My FreeBSD boxes will happily talk to each other using class
E addresses. No everything has had a lobotomy.
You mean, the same BSD stack that has a specific check for not routing class E
packets? In all due fairness, I have to admit it does not reject class F+.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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