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Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:38:28 -0800
On 11/20/21 9:29 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote:
On 11/19/21 10:27, William Herrin wrote:Howdy, That depends on your timeline. Do you know many non-technical people still using their Pentium III computers with circa 2001 software versions? Connected to the Internet?There are lots of very old networked industrial machines with embedded computers operated by non-network-savvy people that are still very much in use.Think CNC machines in machine shops, SCADA systems, etc. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find quite a few 2001-era boxes still in service.
At some level I think there's a good chance that they'd just work. I wrote a significant amount of the Lantronix terminal server code and it never occurred to me that I should enforce rules about 127.0.0.0 or Class D or Class E. It really didn't have much bearing on a terminal server or the other host-like things we built. If you typed it in, it would work, if you listened on a port it wouldn't care what the address was. I would imagine that lots of stacks from back in the day were just like that.
Mike
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- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast, (continued)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Joe Maimon (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Zu (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 ML (Nov 20)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Mark Andrews (Nov 20)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Jay Hennigan (Nov 20)
- 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 J. Hellenthal via NANOG (Nov 21)
- FreeBSD users of 127/8 John Gilmore (Nov 22)
- Re: FreeBSD users of 127/8 Måns Nilsson (Nov 22)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Michael Thomas (Nov 21)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast bzs (Nov 21)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Joe Maimon (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Dave Taht (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast John Gilmore (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Jared Mauch (Nov 19)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Randy Bush (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 Jared Mauch (Nov 25)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Dave Taht (Nov 25)
- Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Joe Maimon (Nov 18)