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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....


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-george william herbert
george.herbert () gmail com


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