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Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?


From: David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:50:27 -0400


Ian Henderson wrote:
- Using a .255 loopback on a Cisco 6500 SNMP requests would return from the closest interface IP address. Combined with a 
specific version of SNMP libraries (which I can't recall right now), this caused queries to fail
I had a weird Cisco problem on 12.2S where it would refuse to establish a BGP peering to a loopback with a .0 IP address. I moved it to something else and it worked fine. I gave up trying to figure it out.

David


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