[83051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic to our customer's address(126.0.0.0/8) seems blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Badami)
Wed Aug 3 16:16:33 2005
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:15:02 +0100
To: mborba@trf3.gov.br
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1123099539.7008.21.camel@marlon.trf3.gov.br>
From: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Marlon> just remember that not all networks use '126.255.255.255'
Marlon> as a broadcast address. there are non-broadcast networks
Marlon> where that address is a 'host' one.
Surely the only networks on which this can be a host are:
one using a /7 or shorter netmask
a /31 (as per RFC3021)
-roy
