The use of .0/.255 addresses.

Sun Jun 27 20:52:34 UTC 2004

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.)