Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 14-apr-2006, at 15:52, Peter Dambier wrote:

> > That being said, I do acknowledge that larger companies such as  
> > global
> > ISPs do have a problem with the RFC1918 space being too small. This
> > brings the debate of what to do with class E, either make it extended
> > private space or make it global unicast.

> When develloping IASON, first I found out, CISCO boxes would not  
> allow me
> to use class E addresses nor would HP boxes.

> Next I found out Linux boxes would not either.

> I guess most boxes will not allow you to use these addresses.

Use a Mac.  :-)

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 240.240.240.240 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast  
240.240.240.255

(Also the only major OS that has IPv6 turned on by default.)

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