[105191] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Fri Jun 13 23:50:50 2008
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:50:27 -0400
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: Ian Henderson <ianh@chime.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <100362309621454DAA534950B17E55DB9E02CAA850@isp-per-exc01.win2k.iinet.net.au>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ian Henderson wrote:
> - Using a .255 loopback on a Cisco 6500 SNMP requests would return from the closest interface IP address. Combined with a specific version of SNMP libraries (which I can't recall right now), this caused queries to fail
I had a weird Cisco problem on 12.2S where it would refuse to establish
a BGP peering to a loopback with a .0 IP address. I moved it to
something else and it worked fine. I gave up trying to figure it out.
David
