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Re: Class E addresses in the wild
From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:19:38 -0700
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.... -- -george william herbert george.herbert () gmail com
Current thread:
- Fwd: Class E addresses in the wild Buz Dale (Mar 21)
- Re: Fwd: Class E addresses in the wild joel jaeggli (Mar 21)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild Donald Eastlake (Mar 21)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild George Herbert (Mar 21)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild cb.list6 (Mar 21)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild George Herbert (Mar 21)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild Buz Dale (Mar 22)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild Dustin Schuemann (Mar 22)
- Re: Class E addresses in the wild George Herbert (Mar 21)