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that seems completely insane that logic has been hard-coded inside every OS and vast amounts of software for 30+ years and to gain less than 0.8%? they'd do
by blibble 4y ago
that seems completely insane
that logic has been hard-coded inside every OS and vast amounts of software for 30+ years
and to gain less than 0.8%?
they'd do better targeting the reserved multicast range
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> inside every OS and vast amounts of software for 30+ years Ha. Ha. Ha. > that logic has been hard-coded inside The thing is what some things are literally hardcoded. I have a whole bunch of network gear circa 2010 in production. It does support IPv6, but for the most part it is extremely rudimentary. What do you want from a box what implements SSH by running a telnet session over a no-auth SSH session? And while I can run the latest Windows/Linux/Whatever on my server gear, the network gear is not that simple to upgrade.
- vlan0 4y ago>I have a whole bunch of network gear circa 2010 in production I ran into this 10 years ago. I decided to roll out IPv6 to clients. Router docs said it was supported. Then I watched CPU usage peg because every packet hit the CPU. Turns out it was implemented in software; no ASIC support. Was quite the buzz kill.
- p_l 4y agoNow consider that there are network components in the wild that have literal latch on first octet equaling 127 which triggers packet drop, and this proposal could drop hw acceleration for v4 too
- greyface- 4y ago> they'd do better targeting the reserved multicast range https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240-02.html https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast...