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Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work

Tests show it’s just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work

  • ruffsl@programming.devOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Any particular reason that those OEMs made that decision when releasing those boxes? Was that range blacklisted in firmware because of the legacy specification? I thought the spec just forebode range’s public allocation, but not necessarily its internal use.

    • 0x0@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      I think that’s what it means: that firmware respects the spect and doesn’t route that range – I doubt you wouldn’t be able to use it on your LAN.