Using x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 host addresses in supernets.

Scott Weeks surfer at mauigateway.com
Wed Jan 9 01:35:30 UTC 2008




--- rs at seastrom.com wrote:
"Wayne E. Bouchard" <web at typo.org> writes:

> So my oppinion is don't hesistate to use it until you find a real,
> reproducible problem.

Tell that to your call center manager.  :-)
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I've been using them for several years and no problems.  We assign about a /15s worth of DHCP in /23s and use the middle .255 and .0 with zero calls of trouble.  The first and last .0 and .255 in the /23 aren't used due to DHCP software silliness.

scott



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