[83151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Aug 5 15:04:27 2005
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 20:01:05 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Scott Altman <staltman@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <bf6b58230508051155cda5672@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Scott Altman wrote:
>
> Apologies upfront for my not being able to successfully google this on my own...
>
> Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected
> devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway?
>
> I have a kludgy (<- technical term) vendor that has developed a custom
> AP that only has an IP address. Whilst cleaning up our network and
> turning off proxy-arp, lo and behold, it isn't really all that
> functional anymore.
like IP: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html
hth
Steve
