On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Byrne <cb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, >>> > 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. >>> > >>> >>> Yep, and that's great. Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a >>> packet like this. >>> >>> Cameron >> >> Considering how small of a change it is, simply removing that net from >> the "black list", they could do it at any time with a code update to any >> version of IOS, provided that black list isn't burned into hardware. >> > > I asked 2 years ago, and i was told it was not feasible. I escalated, > still no-go, it was a "deep" problem. And they pointed to the IETF > saying no on the above drafts as reason to not dig into the microcode > or whatever to fix it. > > This is where i turned to the IPv6-only reality of the future > near-term internet. I suggest you do the same. > > Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in > cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, .... I understand > some progress has been made... but choose your scope wisely and pick > your battles and know that the weight of the world is against you > (cisco and msft) > > Let me remind you, i believe opening 240/4 for private unicast was a > good ideas years ago. It is still not a bad idea, what's the harm? > But ... the answer you will hear is that IPv6 has momentum, go with > the flow. > > Using 240/4 is much better than providing a public allocation to > private networks. It properly makes folks consider the reality of > staying with broken ipv4 or making the much better long term > investment in IPv6. > > @George > > Please don't speculating on when Cisco or Microsoft will support 240/4 > on this list. Ask your account rep, then report back with facts. > Arm-chair engineering accounts for too many emails on this list. > > Cameron > ===== > http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta > ===== > >
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