netdev - Re: "[RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] Reduce localhost to 127.0.0.0/16"

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Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:01:59 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>,
        Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "[RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] Reduce localhost to 127.0.0.0/16"

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.