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Do you have data on that? I've heard rumors, but never seen it actually done. It was never a viable option for the Internet (million or billions of devices wou
by knorker 2y ago
Do you have data on that? I've heard rumors, but never seen it actually done.
It was never a viable option for the Internet (million or billions of devices would never support it, and anyway it'd only buy us like 3 months), but in theory it should work better in the (more, but not entirely) controlled environment of a large prod environment.
I know of several massive setups that when running out of 10/8 evaluated 240/4 but deemed it less feasible, riskier, and definitely more work, than to "just" move to IPv6. Sorry, can't namedrop them, since I don't want to doxx myself. I've never seen 240/4 actually chosen.
- Hikikomori 2y agoWe use them in AWS as IPv6 hasn't been feasible, though its become better in the last 1-2 years. AWS uses it internally, likely other big providers probably also do. If you can get away with IPv6 only, ie not constrained by provider/device, its likely worth going that direction instead. Works fine in Linux, doesn't really work on Windows and some BSDs. https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/class-e-addresses-in-the-real-world https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/class-e-addresses-in-the-rea...