North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: all [0s|1]'s subnets

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Mon Oct 07 12:53:05 1996
  • Posted-date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
> I keep running into people (Ascend tech support, joeblow ISP tech support off the street)
> that say that it's improper to use the all 0s or all 1's subnets (ie .0 and whatever
> has .255 in it).  Since CIDR, I thought the philosophy was 'use everything', but I can't
> seem to find the explicit recommendation to start using the .0 subnet... can anyone
> help with a pointer to the pertinent RFC ?
> 
>   --Zachary
> 

RFC 1812
RFC 1878
RFC 1879

-- 
--bill
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -