Traffic to our customer's address(126.0.0.0/8) seems blocked by packet filter

Roy Badami roy at gnomon.org.uk
Wed Aug 3 20:15:02 UTC 2005 

    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

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