Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Scott Altman wrote:

> Apologies upfront for my not being able to successfully google this on my own...
>
> Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected
> devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway?
>
> I have a kludgy (<- technical term) vendor that has developed a custom
> AP that only has an IP address.  Whilst cleaning up our network and
> turning off proxy-arp, lo and behold, it isn't really all that
> functional anymore.

like IP: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc791.html

hth

Steve