[Babel-users] [PATCH] Relax martians check

[Emeka]

Thanks

On Monday, December 24, 2018, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:54 AM Emeka <emekamicro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dave Taht (1):
> >       net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl
> >
> > Dave , please through more light on the above.
>
> That's the kernel, not babel patch.
>
> I've been engaged for several months now on a project to make class-e
> routable with a few other folk.
>
> The linux kernel has been "class-e ready" since about 2008, capable of
> both accepting and routing these unicast addresses, with the one
> exception of an ancient bit of pre-cidr (1992!) code invoked by
> early-boot and the ioctl invoked by the version of ifconfig used by
> busybox and toybox among others. Modern distributions using the
> iproute2 equivalent or netlink directly had no such limitations. Linux
> 4.21 (backported to openwrt also) makes it possible to fully use
> class-e under all circumstances.
>
> We've tested openbsd, freebsd, android, ios and OSX, and they all work
> today (well, there's *one* teeny patch for ping on freebsd). Junos
> requires a config option, some cisco routers work, some don't, all the
> switches we've tried work, multiple iot devices work ,nat works, every
> vpn we've tried works, and we know how to go about making windows work
> in the long run (it can neither accept or route to 240/4 presently)...
> and nothing thus far, crashes.
>
> The hope is to run a global test next year (with the help of caida,
> iana, irtf and others) to further study how this space can be used to
> keep ipv4 crutching along in the face of ever more extreme address
> depletion problems. It would be a long slog (years!), and many rfc
> updates, and infrastructure (as one example, we'd need
> 240.in-addr.arpa) to make them fully usable, but just as we made
> 1.0.0.0/8 and 8.0.0.0/8 work eventually, *so far* we see no technical
> limits.
>
> In the interim, allowing the capability of 240/4 addresses in more
> routing daemons and moving the policy into config files, rather than
> hardcoding things, seemed like a good idea, and there are patches
> outstanding for both bird and FRR, also. Please give 'em a shot, and
> then ponder what would be the best possible use for the last available
> 268m ipv4 addresses in the world....
>
>
> >
> > On Saturday, December 22, 2018, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 'Cause I'd sent you a patch earlier for just e (240/4) and you didn't
> >> > apply it? :)
> >>
> >> I'm a bad man.  Please double-check commit 19a442ba.
> >>
> >> -- Juliusz
> >>
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