[71968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The use of .0/.255 addresses.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Sun Jun 27 10:12:44 2004
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:12:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Stephen J. Wilcox <steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> I currently have a few .255/32s with Cisco and Foundry products and
> have various windows/linux/OSX machines that access them without
> problems..
Well, I'd expect Linux and OSX to do the right thing. It just seems to
be Windows that makes a complete sow's ear of it.
As to the IP addresses ending in 255 that are working from Windows
boxes, would I be right in guessing that the first octet of the IP
addresses in question is between 1 and 191?
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