On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:45:04PM -1000, scott wrote:
On 11/17/2021 1:29 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who noticed?
https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html
https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions
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Fixing the odd nooks and crannies still mildly broken in IPv4, by:
* Making class-e (240/4), 0/8, 127/8, 224/4 more usable * Adding 419 million new IPs to the world * Fixing zeroth networking <https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions/blob/master/ZEROTH.md> * Improving interoperability with multiple protocols and tunnelling technologies * Supplying tested patches and tools that address these problems
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Some of these are hardcoded in ASICs, I believe. Change that! ;)
Probably easier to change the ASICs than it'll be to get those "tested patches" they've apparently written deployed to the millions of Windows XP boxes still out there. - Matt