[71974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The use of .0/.255 addresses.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Jun 27 16:53:15 2004
In-Reply-To: <cbmkjh$rpp$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:52:34 +0200
To: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 27-jun-04, at 16:12, Peter Corlett 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.
If you want to have some real fun, try configuring some class E
addresses. Windows of course won't have it, and Cisco also doesn't want
anything to do with it, even to the point of rejecting routes within
240.0.0.0/4 when they come in over BGP. (Which an MacOSX box running
Zebra will happily provide.)
