[101513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 host addresses in supernets.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Jan 8 20:38:07 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:35:30 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- rs@seastrom.com wrote:
"Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org> writes:
> So my oppinion is don't hesistate to use it until you find a real,
> reproducible problem.
Tell that to your call center manager. :-)
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I've been using them for several years and no problems. We assign about a /15s worth of DHCP in /23s and use the middle .255 and .0 with zero calls of trouble. The first and last .0 and .255 in the /23 aren't used due to DHCP software silliness.
scott
