On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think you can overstate how ASIC's made changing anything pretty > much impossible. > It's why all of the pissing and moaning about what ipv6 looked like > completely missed the point. There was a fuse lit in 1992 to when the > first hardware based routing was done. *Anything* that extended the > address space would have been better.
Obligatory 2007 plug: https://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html -- William Herrin [email protected] https://bill.herrin.us/
