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

Fri Nov 19 18:58:57 UTC 2021

On 11/19/21 10:15 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> 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
>
>
And just as impossible since it would pop it out of the fast path. Does 
big iron support ipv6 these days?

Mike