DSL Network Design Question
Jon Lewis
jlewis at lewis.org
Sun Aug 14 15:14:05 UTC 2005
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
> Peter Dambier is right that his ISP is avoiding .255 and .0. Older MS
> stacks (still plenty prevalent in the wild) get indigestion when
> handed those final octets, notwithstanding the fact that they aren't
> broadcast addresses on any network larger than a /24 or for one-ended
> use like PPP... if you don't exclude them you'll end up putting
> additional load on your help desk.
Believe it or not, even not too old (12.1T) IOS versions have issues
forwarding packets to .255 addresses.
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