[105178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Jun 13 16:11:35 2008
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:11:13 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <23933.1213384602@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:16 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:08:47 EDT, David Hubbard said:
>> I remember back in the day of old hardware and operating
>> systems we'd intentionally avoid using .255 IP addresses
>> for anything even when the netmask on our side would have
>> made it fine, so I just thought I'd try it out for kicks
>> today. From two of four ISP's it worked fine, from Verizon
>> FIOS and Road Runner commercial, it didn't. So I guess
>> that old problem still lingers?
>
> RFC1519 is 15 years old now. I *still* heard a trainer (in a Cisco
> class no less) mention class A/B/C in the last few months. Some evil
> will obviously take generations to fully stamp out.
>
> Anybody from Verizon FIOS or RoadRunner care to explain why David is seeing
> an issue in 2008?
not from either, and hopefully david will follow back up with some of
his findings, but.. I'd bet dollars to donuts it's the ultra-crappy
CPE both vendors ship :(
go-go-actiontec (vol sends those out, god do they suck...)
-Chris
