From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "[RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] Reduce localhost to 127.0.0.0/16"
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:01:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d2898f5-e5dc-a2ff-168d-22c69cca5f01@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw4SC2choBKXvaTD_5j93Op=RZ9ZEeKmyAu31ys_uNhSyA@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/13/19 10:14 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> it came out that cumulus and a few others were possibly using high
> values of 127.x for switch chassis addressing, but we haven't got any
> documentation on how that works yet.
Not Cumulus.
I noted I am aware of 2 products from my history that use 127.x
addresses for communications within a box - e.g., to a bmc - that your
patch could break. Really it was meant as a data point that there are
released products that would be affected.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-13 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-13 8:54 "[RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] Reduce localhost to 127.0.0.0/16" Mark Smith
2019-09-13 9:14 ` Dave Taht
2019-09-13 17:01 ` David Ahern [this message]
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