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At 11:41 AM 1/22/98 -0500, Eric Osborne wrote: >In other words, I can't prevent my customers from sending packets to >a broadcast address, esp. on a subnet smaller than /24. You might be >able to block outgoing packets for destination x.y.z.255, but if you've got >a mask >/24 (/23, etc..), couldn't .255 be a valid host address? Yes, it could be, actually. I tried to use it as WAN pool address once though and it horrendously confused the RAS, as well as several UNIX boxen on the network. ************************************************************** Justin W. Newton voice: +1-650-482-2840 Senior Network Architect fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net Legislative and Policy Director, ISP/C http://www.ispc.org "The People You Know. The People You Trust." **************************************************************
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