if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat wasteful... we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to hosts ending in .255. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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I've seen cable modem users have .0 ips.
DSL ports too. I was spammed today from a Verizon DSL IP of 4.46.3.0.
if you have a subnet larger than /24 not using .0 and .255 gets somehwat wasteful... we have observed some versions of windows having trouble connecting to hosts ending in .255.
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