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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:08:47 EDT, David Hubbard said: >> I remember back in the day of old hardware and operating >> systems we'd intentionally avoid using .255 IP addresses >> for anything even when the netmask on our side would have >> made it fine, so I just thought I'd try it out for kicks >> today. From two of four ISP's it worked fine, from Verizon >> FIOS and Road Runner commercial, it didn't. So I guess >> that old problem still lingers? > > RFC1519 is 15 years old now. I *still* heard a trainer (in a Cisco > class no less) mention class A/B/C in the last few months. Some evil > will obviously take generations to fully stamp out. > > Anybody from Verizon FIOS or RoadRunner care to explain why David is seeing > an issue in 2008? not from either, and hopefully david will follow back up with some of his findings, but.. I'd bet dollars to donuts it's the ultra-crappy CPE both vendors ship :( go-go-actiontec (vol sends those out, god do they suck...) -Chris
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