On Tuesday 21 August 2007 02:47:16 ext Mark Andrews wrote: > > Mark Andrews writes: > > > Cable companies need this amount of address space for > > > controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public > > > addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer. > > > > One of which can easily be an IPv6 address, so allocating 240/x for this > > would seem to cater to those people who can and will modify their > > devices to accept 240/4, but cannot or will not give them IPv6 ability. > > That assumes that they won't work with those addresses today. > My FreeBSD boxes will happily talk to each other using class > E addresses. No everything has had a lobotomy.
You mean, the same BSD stack that has a specific check for not routing class E packets? In all due fairness, I have to admit it does not reject class F+. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
