Re: Public Subnet re-assignments

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

You’re using just the two middle IPs in the four that make up the /30 set, right? IOW, the subnet x.x.x.0/30 should 
have .0 and .3 unused (they’re broadcast), and you use .1 and .2.

 -mel

> On Jun 25, 2019, at 9:41 AM, Scott <scott () viviotech net> wrote:
>
> First, sorry if this is a bit of a noob question.
>
> I'm trying to find a way of preventing a slew of traffic to an IP, or
> IP's, when I join two /30 public subnets to a /29. It appears that while
> the ranges are /30 someone is trying to brute-force the network and/or
> broadcast addresses for the ranges. When I change them to be a /29, now
> the router sees the traffic and starts dropping packets. Are there any
> suggestions for mitigating this behavior or is it just the nature of the
> beast?
>
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