Strange static route
Joel Maslak
jmaslak at antelope.net
Sat Sep 24 01:18:42 UTC 2011
Protection against learning a bad default route through whatever routing protocol they are learning, since these two routes would be more specific than any typical default route. They probably got burned learning a default route.
On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen a few operators adding static routes like:
> 0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and
> 128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop.
>
> Why would anyone want to add such static routes? What does 0.0.0.0/1
> mean. Note that the netmask is 1 and not 0.
>
> Thanks,
> Glen
>
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