On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:16 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:08:47 EDT, David Hubbard said:
I remember back in the day of old hardware and operating systems we'd intentionally avoid using .255 IP addresses for anything even when the netmask on our side would have made it fine, so I just thought I'd try it out for kicks today. From two of four ISP's it worked fine, from Verizon FIOS and Road Runner commercial, it didn't. So I guess that old problem still lingers?
RFC1519 is 15 years old now. I *still* heard a trainer (in a Cisco class no less) mention class A/B/C in the last few months. Some evil will obviously take generations to fully stamp out.
Anybody from Verizon FIOS or RoadRunner care to explain why David is seeing an issue in 2008?
not from either, and hopefully david will follow back up with some of his findings, but.. I'd bet dollars to donuts it's the ultra-crappy CPE both vendors ship :(
go-go-actiontec (vol sends those out, god do they suck...)
Or leftover filters from before 'no ip directed-broadcast' in the days of Smurf attacks. -Dave