The use of .0/.255 addresses.

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Sun Jun 27 14:12:01 UTC 2004


Stephen J. Wilcox <steve at 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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