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

Fri Nov 19 18:15:27 UTC 2021

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Michael Thomas <mike at 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
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