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Re: Valid ip address ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Mon Jul 1 11:44:03 2002

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:43:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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JJ> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:53:32 -0700 (PDT)
JJ> From: JothirLatha Jaganathan


JJ> Can any one tell me if the last byte of a point to
JJ> point or loopback ipaddress with 32 bit mask can be 0
JJ> or 255?
JJ> 
JJ> For e.g.:
JJ> 
JJ> Is 10.1.1.0/32 a valid interace address?

You sort of answered your own question.  If the subnet length is
32, everything is network address.  What makes a network ending
in several 0 bits special?


Eddy
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