James Carlson wrote:
> Sebastien Roy writes:
>> This fasttrack is being submitted for two specific behavior changes:
>
> Are there any <netinet/in.h> macro changes to go along with this?
>
> What will inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr() do when
> faced with Class E addresses?
Those routines assume classfull IP addresses, and such a thing was
obsoleted when CIDR was introduced.
There is no classfull mask associated with Class E, and if we tried to
convince the IETF that they should pick one just so that the above
(de-facto obsolete) routines can do something with Class E, I think
folks would laugh at us and wonder why we haven't heard of CIDR yet.
Thus the behavior of the above classfull routines is undefined with
Class E. Should we make that be part of the specification/case?
Erik
