Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:42:03 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subnets of all 0's/all 1's Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970415184202.00b99b00@mixcom.com>
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At 10:50 AM 4/15/97 -0500, Guy Helmer wrote: >I'm helping a FreeBSD system administrator whose class C network is >subnetted at 255.255.255.192. He would dearly like to use the subnet with >systems numbered x.x.x.1-63; I have held up RFC 950 to say "this isn't >allowed", but the RFC doesn't say specifically why this wouldn't work. > >Should FreeBSD be able to support a network with a subnet of all zeros or >all ones? If not, could someone give a short technical explanation as to >why? This is old and no longer applies. Modern equipment and OSs support .0 networks, but on Cisco it must be enabled. It works just fine. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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