Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:17:53 -0400, Ca By wrote: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02 Proposed and denied. Please stop this line and spend your efforts on ipv6 By APNIC. Cisco did, too, btw. And they weren't first, either. Nor is this going to be the last time someone sugges

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Josh Luthman
How many devices need IPs? Is there a reason ARIN can't be used? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jun 17, 2015 10:18 PM, "John Levine" wrote: > >IIRC, the short answer why it wasn't repurposed as additional unicast > >addresses was

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread John Levine
>IIRC, the short answer why it wasn't repurposed as additional unicast >addresses was that too much deployed gear has it hardcoded as >"reserved, future functionality unknown, do not use." Following an >instruction to repurpose 240/4 as unicast addresses, such gear would >not receive new firmware o

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Joe Provo
No, we examined this back in 2007. See your favorite cache site for http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/240-e -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / CotSG / Usenix / NANOG

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ca By
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Jonas Björk wrote: > > >> Given how slowly IPv6 is deploying, this choice may prove to have been > >> shortsighted. > > > > I doubt it. As you said, there is A LOT of crap out there that would > have to be updated. Pulling a number out of the air, I'd guess *most* > i

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Jonas Björk
>> Given how slowly IPv6 is deploying, this choice may prove to have been >> shortsighted. > > I doubt it. As you said, there is A LOT of crap out there that would have to > be updated. Pulling a number out of the air, I'd guess *most* in-use devices > would NEVER see such an update. Even from

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ca By
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:38:32 -0400, William Herrin wrote: > >> You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in >> reserve by IETF. As much as I enjoy a good ARIN bashing, they and John >> Curran are quite faultless here. >> > > Quo

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:38:32 -0400, William Herrin wrote: You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in reserve by IETF. As much as I enjoy a good ARIN bashing, they and John Curran are quite faultless here. Quote-unquote, as in they didn't even bother *even proposing* to use

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Damian Menscher via NANOG
Not used in the sense you imagine, but I designed a hack where we hash IPv6 addresses into 224/3 (class D and E space) so backends that don't support IPv6 can still be provided a pseudo-IP. This accelerated support of IPv6 across all Google services without needing to wait for each individual back

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Ca By writes: > On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, William Herrin wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ricky Beam > > wrote: > > > I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class E > > was > > > "abandoned" by ARIN. (short answer: too much broken crap th

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ca By
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ricky Beam > wrote: > > I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class E > was > > "abandoned" by ARIN. (short answer: too much broken crap thinks it's > > multicast!) > > Hi Ricky, > >

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class E was > "abandoned" by ARIN. (short answer: too much broken crap thinks it's > multicast!) Hi Ricky, You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in reserve

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Rafael Possamai
.I would most > definitely not recommend 240.0.0.0 > > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Luan Nguyen > Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2015 9:07 a.m. > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 > > I

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Job Snijders
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Luan Nguyen wrote: > Is that safe to use [240.0.0.0/4] internally? Anyone using it? Just > for NATTING on Cisco gears... On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 06:30:04PM -0300, Eduardo Schoedler wrote: > And what about 0.0.0.0/8? On both counts: NO. I always assume pa

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Tom Paseka via NANOG
You'll find as well, a lot of hosts (eg, I know at least Windows XP) won't forward to Class E destinations. -Tom On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: > There is already more than enough address space allocated for NAT, you > don't need to start using random prefixes that may or may

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ray Soucy
There is already more than enough address space allocated for NAT, you don't need to start using random prefixes that may or may not be needed for other purposes in the future. For all we know, tomorrow someone could write an RFC requesting an address reserved for local anycast DNS and it could be

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:07:25 -0400, Luan Nguyen wrote: Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it? Just for NATTING on Cisco gears... As you've already figured out, Class E space is still restricted on Cisco gear. I'll wait for Curran to pop up with various links to reasons why Class

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Eduardo Schoedler
And what about 0.0.0.0/8? -- Eduardo Schoedler 2015-06-17 18:21 GMT-03:00 Luan Nguyen : > Cisco IOS-XE Fails > ip add 241.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 > Not a valid host address - 241.1.1.1 > ip route 241.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.10.10.1 > %Invalid destination prefix > XR-OS : fails > Can take the IP on a inte

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Luan Nguyen
Cisco IOS-XE Fails ip add 241.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 Not a valid host address - 241.1.1.1 ip route 241.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 10.10.10.1 %Invalid destination prefix XR-OS : fails Can take the IP on a interface, but cant route it IOS fails we used up all the reserved ip blocks including the 169.254 and the b

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Josh Luthman
Probably fine to NAT it yourself until it is allocated and someone starts using it. Why not just use RFC1918 space? https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1JEgabzMOJx1l25zHZK5wv4_Tn9KRsyDGgSq-M4g Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy,

RE: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Tony Wicks
Use 100.64.0.0/10, this is the CGNAT reserved range.I would most definitely not recommend 240.0.0.0 -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Luan Nguyen Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2015 9:07 a.m. To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Ca By
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Luan Nguyen wrote: > Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it? > Just for NATTING on Cisco gears... > most things, including most cisco gear, will not forward those Class E packets or accept Class E as a valid address If you have success, please report it

Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

2015-06-17 Thread Luan Nguyen
Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it? Just for NATTING on Cisco gears...