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Re: routing invalid IP addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Feb 21 11:09:05 2004

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:08:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40377A2E.2050003@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

> Invalid?  Really?  I used to manage a small collection of cisco routers
> and I don't recall any of them complaining about such an address.

Could be related to perhaps not having "ip subnet-zero"? (I have no idea, 
but the old thingie about highest and lowest network being 
broadcast/network address might be applicable in this case)

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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