On 11/06/23 05:37, Greg Troxel wrote:
Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden%gmail.com@localhost> writes:The ship has sailed for bgp deamons such as frrouting, openbgpd ...That isn't my point. It's that NetBSD follows standards, and there doesn't seem to be a standards-track document. If the IETF issues a draft standard -- which is not that hard if it is truly widely agreed on -- then certainly we can align to it.
A quick search search finds the nice IANA summary of special IP addresses at https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml which shows that 0/8 is defined in RFC791.
I like the idea of improving NetBSD by removing needless complexity, but I agree that changing the default behaviour of NetBSD before _somthing_ has been done in the standards space is a mistake.
I don't have a problem with this being a kernel compile option so that it can be tested, and I don't have a problem with NetBSD preparing for the change ahead of time.
Cheers, Lloyd