On 1/10/24 10:12, Tom Beecher wrote:
Karim-
Please be cautious about this advice, and understand the full context.
240/4 is still classified as RESERVED space. While you would certainly
be able to use it on internal networks if your equipment supports it,
you cannot use it as publicly routable space. There have been many
proposals over the years to reclassify 240/4, but that has not happened,
and is unlikely to at any point in the foreseeable future.
While you may be able to get packets from point A to B in a private
setting, using them might also be .. a challenge.
There's a whole bunch of software out there that makes certain
assumptions about allowable ranges. That is, they've been compiled with
a header that defines ..
#define IN_BADCLASS(i) (((in_addr_t)(i) & 0xf0000000) == 0xf0000000)
Michael
