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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 08:49:04AM -0700, Aaron Beck wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > > Then again, filtering any packets to or from x.x.x.255 would have a > > similar but more profound effect. Anyone who actually uses a .255 > > address for a host is asking for trouble anyways. > > the problem with that thinking, of course, is going to crop up when you > encounter /23's and greater. > > -- Aaron Not often. Few people are actually supernetting within a given broadcast domain. There's still an awful lot of hardware that doesn't work right in that environment. The larger problem is that subnetted /24s still are wide open. This kind of filter won't block anything from their broadcast addresses, since they're not the .255 address. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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