[45239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: traffic filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Jan 24 11:18:01 2002
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:17:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jay Ford wrote:
>
> 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
you appeal to 'sanity & common sense'.. good luck in your crusade!
hehe
> not blindly filter on octets of 0 or 255 when they don't (& can't) know the
> corresponding net masking.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 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
>
>
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Stephen J. Wilcox
IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom
http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/
Tel: 0161 222 2000
Fax: 0161 222 2008
