[144999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Strange static route
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Fri Sep 23 21:14:10 2011
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:42:19 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
I have seen a few operators adding static routes like:
0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and
128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop.
Why would anyone want to add such static routes? What does 0.0.0.0/1
mean. Note that the netmask is 1 and not 0.
Thanks,
Glen
