While Linux can happily handle that zone as a source of or destination for traffic, most networking equipment deliberately doesn't recognize its existence – and those boxes can't easily be upgraded.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Any particular reason that those OEMs made that decision when releasing those boxes? Was that range blacklisted in firmware because of the legacy specification? I thought the spec just forebode range's public allocation, but not necessarily its internal use.
I think that's what it means: that firmware respects the spect and doesn't route that range – I doubt you wouldn't be able to use it on your LAN.