21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
6:23 a.m.
On 2011-10-22 12:59, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Personally I'd like to see 240/4 reclassified as experimental private addressing (ie. not Internet unicast), because that allows use in closed environments with a single administrative domain... Whether it ever happens or not depends on how enthusiastic people get about it, I suppose...
That was of course discussed but the conclusion was that it's hard-coded into many IP stacks as invalid, so it would be pretty much unusable in practice. Brian