On 5/17/16 9:49 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > > > On 5/17/2016 9:35 AM, Ray Bellis wrote: >> However some operators have (had?) "classful" firewall rules that >> prohibit packets that come from IP addresses that would have been >> considered a broadcast address in a pre-CIDR world. > > It's been 23 years since pre-CIDR and 15 years since you experienced > this error. > > If we can't assume a fix here, then we can't assume any of the IPv6 > reserved IDs are actually reserved either - they could easily be in use > by legacy equipment. > > I.e,, the Postel principle applies here: > > - avoid assigning these addresses > - test your equipment to ensure that they allow these addresses > correctly > > If only we had compliance testing (again)....
I'm not really concerned that we broke windows95, neither is Microsoft. We use these IPs for production VIPs and testing in a CDN (as /32s) and they are fine. > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet >
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