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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jay Ford wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Joe Abley wrote: > > I guess the rule of thumb when numbering devices which need to > > coexist with Windows is "avoid 255". > > How about "when doing networking avoid Windows" instead? ;^) > > Being at a site which not only uses .0 & .255 addresses in our network but > also has a "255" in two of our our base net numbers (128.255.0.0/16 & > 129.255.0.0/16), I appeal to sanity & common sense in requesting that folks you appeal to 'sanity & common sense'.. good luck in your crusade! hehe > not blindly filter on octets of 0 or 255 when they don't (& can't) know the > corresponding net masking. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services > University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 > email: [email protected], phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-5505 > > -- Stephen J. Wilcox IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/ Tel: 0161 222 2000 Fax: 0161 222 2008
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