1 Feb
2011
1 Feb
'11
12:21 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com> wrote: This has come up before, in 2007, and earlier, http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2007-10/msg00487.html Way too late now for unreserving 240/4 to help. Now, if it had been unreserved in 2003 or so, there might not be so many devices to upgrade. There could a case to be made for unreserving 240/4 now, so perhaps it could be used in 2020,.
Neither Linux 2.6.37 nor Windows 7 accepts it, and let's not think about all routers, including CPE:s, out there.
hm...... for Linux, there was a patch for this in 2008, in the kernel proper should be in 2.6.25 and newer, http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/1/21/587456 -- -JH