Jay, I have a B assignment. I have switched infrastructure segments with /22 masking. Do you mean to say that the host number range on each /22 masked segment is not continuous 1 through 1022, but has several holes instead.? The network seems to be working properly. I may be in big trouble! None of my TCP/IP courses or books or Cisco CDs have prepared me for such a surprise. Please point me to a text which will explain this. Thanks for your help. JimC At 3:36 PM -0400 4/14/98, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 08:49:04AM -0700, Aaron Beck wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Then again, filtering any packets to or from x.x.x.255 would have a similar but more profound effect. Anyone who actually uses a .255 address for a host is asking for trouble anyways.
the problem with that thinking, of course, is going to crop up when you encounter /23's and greater.
No, IMHO, the comment stands: no matter _what_ size your network is, if you assign host addresses with a .0 or .255 final octet, things may break, and you deserve what you get.
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