Funny this discussion surfaced now - I got bitten by this recently. Was using .255 for NAT on a secondary firewall. When the primary failed over, parts of the Internet became unreachable... Tim:> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:43:36 -0700 Kameron Gasso <kgasso-lists@visp.net> wrote:
Christopher Morrow wrote:
go-go-actiontec (vol sends those out, god do they suck...)
Crappy CPE's are exactly why we don't hand out .0 and .255 addresses in our DHCP pools. :( -- Kameron Gasso | Senior Systems Administrator | visp.net Direct: 541-955-6903 | Fax: 541-471-0821
We avoid them because in the interest of "security", customers who would be assigned .0 and .255 have trouble accessing their online banking and other financial websites. With IPv4 address space running out, we'll probably inevitably have to start handing them out and then get our customers to complain to their bank etc.
Regards, Mark.
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