Nick Hilliard wrote:
John Gilmore wrote on 19/11/2021 01:54:
Lowest address is in the most recent Linux and
FreeBSD kernels, but not yet in any OS distros.
lowest addresses will not be viable until widely supported on router
(including CPE) platforms. This is hard to test in the wild - ripe
atlas will only test the transit path rather than the local
connection. I.e. it's not clear that what you're measuring here is a
valid way of working out whether a lowest address is generally going
to work, because .0 has been mostly accepted in the transit path since
the 1990s (bit alarming to see that it's still not universal).
The other risk with the lowest address proposal is that it will break
network connectivity transitivity with no fallback or detection
mechanism. I.e. consider three hosts on a broadcast domain: A, B and
C. A uses the lowest address, B accepts a lowest address, but C does
not. Then A can talk to B, B can talk to C, but C cannot talk to A.
This does not seem to be addressed in the draft.
Nick
Its very viable, since its a local support issue only. Your ISP can
advise you that they will support you using the lowest number and you
may then use it if you can....all you may need is a single
patched/upgraded router or firewall to get your additional static IP online.
The rest of the internet has no bearing on it.
Joe
