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Just a thought but why hasn't Multicast or Reserved sections been sliced up further and added back into the pool? I'm guessing going back and making those addre

by dvno42 8y ago

Just a thought but why hasn't Multicast or Reserved sections been sliced up further and added back into the pool? I'm guessing going back and making those addresses Internet routable would be very difficult at this point. Since MBONE[0] is gone I feel like even a /16 would be sufficient for reserved multicast in private networks. A /4 just seems ridiculous to me. I suppose at this point the path of least resistance is to just go to IPv6 though. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone

benjojo12 8y ago
Much like Class E space, too many systems would black list these IP's for them to be widely usable.
jandrese 8y ago
If you're going to have to hack every single router to support using these addresses for regular unicast traffic you might as well just switch to IPv6.