Re: DSL Network Design Question

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:

> Peter Dambier is right that his ISP is avoiding .255 and .0.  Older MS
> stacks (still plenty prevalent in the wild) get indigestion when
> handed those final octets, notwithstanding the fact that they aren't
> broadcast addresses on any network larger than a /24 or for one-ended
> use like PPP...  if you don't exclude them you'll end up putting
> additional load on your help desk.

Believe it or not, even not too old (12.1T) IOS versions have issues 
forwarding packets to .255 addresses.

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