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Re: Traffic to our customer's address(126.0.0.0/8) seems blockedby packet filter

  • From: Roy Badami
  • Date: Wed Aug 03 16:19:27 2005 
    Marlon> just remember that not all networks use '126.255.255.255'
    Marlon> as a broadcast address. there are non-broadcast networks
    Marlon> where that address is a 'host' one.

Surely the only networks on which this can be a host are:

       one using a /7 or shorter netmask
       a /31 (as per RFC3021)


-roy