[45238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: traffic filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ford)
Thu Jan 24 11:13:23 2002
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:12:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
> I guess the rule of thumb when numbering devices which need to
> coexist with Windows is "avoid 255".
How about "when doing networking avoid Windows" instead? ;^)
Being at a site which not only uses .0 & .255 addresses in our network but
also has a "255" in two of our our base net numbers (128.255.0.0/16 &
129.255.0.0/16), I appeal to sanity & common sense in requesting that folks
not blindly filter on octets of 0 or 255 when they don't (& can't) know the
corresponding net masking.
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Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
email: jay-ford@uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-5505
