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Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:01:35 -0800
On 11/20/21 10:44 AM, Chris Adams wrote: []There is just as big a block of addresses with class D addresses for broadcast. Is broadcast really even a thing these days? I know tons of work went into it, but it always seemed that brute force and ignorance won out using unicast. Even if it has some niche uses, I seriously doubt that it needs 400M addresses. If you wanted to reclaim ipv4 addresses it seems that class D and class E would be a much better target than loopback.
Mike, not that I have any stake in this
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- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Masataka Ohta (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Chris Adams (Nov 20)
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- Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 20)
- Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Michael Thomas (Nov 20)
- Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 20)
- Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Michael Thomas (Nov 20)
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- RE: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Richard Irving (Nov 21)
- Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Eliot Lear (Nov 21)
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