From: Freek Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:45:46 +0200
> Jamal also wrote: > > Should we hard-code checks for RFC 1918 IPV4 addresses in the kernel? > > After all, they are well defined by the IETF. The answer is no. > > You make a valid argument here: that hard-coding IP address is bad (make > it less flexible). I disagree with this argument. If an RFC specifically describes the behavior of a specific range of IP addresses, we should follow that by default. The catch is that the user should still be able to override that behavior if they wish to. For example, if the RFCs say to treat a certain range of IP addresses as link local, we will do that by default unless a specific scope was passed in by the user. To me this is clearly the right thing to do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
