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Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:15:27 -0800

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
I don't think you can overstate how ASIC's made changing anything pretty
much impossible.
It's why all of the pissing and moaning about what ipv6 looked like
completely missed the point. There was a fuse lit in 1992 to when the
first hardware based routing was done. *Anything* that extended the
address space would have been better.

Obligatory 2007 plug: https://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html



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William Herrin
bill () herrin us
https://bill.herrin.us/


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