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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 -- William Herrin bill () herrin us https://bill.herrin.us/
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- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast John Gilmore (Nov 18)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Karsten Thomann via NANOG (Nov 18)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast David Conrad (Nov 18)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Jim (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Tom Beecher (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Joe Maimon (Nov 20)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Matthew Petach (Nov 21)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 20)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Michael Thomas (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast William Herrin (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Michael Thomas (Nov 19)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying John Levine (Nov 19)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Michael Thomas (Nov 19)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying John Levine (Nov 19)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying John Lee (Nov 19)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Saku Ytti (Nov 20)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying j k (Nov 23)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Masataka Ohta (Nov 20)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 20)
- Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Masataka Ohta (Nov 21)