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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________