> > why on earth would you want to go and hack this
stuff together,
> > knowing that it WILL NEVER WORK
>
> Because I have read reports from people whose technical
expertise I
> trust. They modified the TCP/IP code of Linux and
FreeBSD and were able
> to freely use 240/4 address space to communicate
between machines. This
> means that IT WILL WORK.
>
> The reports stated that the code patch was simple
because it involved
> simply removing a line of code that disallowed 240/4
addresses.
>
> This demonstrates that enabling 240/4 is a very simple
technical issue.
> The only real difficulty here is getting the right
people to act on it.
>
> Companies like Cisco don't even need to wait for the
IETF in order to
> implement a command like
> ip class-e
> as long as they ship it with a default of
> no ip class-e
I don't even know where to begin. Well, maybe here:
"The only real difficulty here is getting the right
people to act on it."
That neatly sums up the problem.
When you can round up:
1) All the programmers for all the tens of thousands of
different IP
devices that are out on the market, have them dig up the
source code
for these devices (some of which may have been a few
employers ago),
and you get them all to agree to post updated copies of
their firmware,
which might be problematic for those companies that went
T.U.,
You still have the giant problem of:
2) Getting over 100 MILLION users to all update the BILLIONS
of devices
that are out there with that firmware.
Once you have a game plan for getting those hundred million
people to do
this, then we may have something to talk about. Until then,
not so much.
Your "people whose technical expertise <you>
trust" clearly figured out
that there are cases where you can make moving an IPv4-240+
packet work.
Anyone can make that happen. However, they apparently
failed to impress
upon you that what they were (hopefully) saying is that
"enabling IPv4-
240+ on a single device is a very simple technical
issue." Deploying it
on a wider scale ... not so simple.
What kind of customer would actively solicit an IP address
assignment
that won't reach random segments of the Internet?
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me
one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n
position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way
too many apples.
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