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Re: traffic filtering

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Thu Jan 24 11:20:01 2002

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
> 
> 

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Stephen J. Wilcox
IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom
http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/
Tel: 0161 222 2000
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