[67779] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing invalid IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sat Feb 21 11:17:41 2004
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:15:39 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402211707250.16586-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
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>>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.
>
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> 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)
Could be. There are a number of things that don't work right if they
are not configured correctly.
