<<-snip-->>| | How can you say such a thing? They are reserved for routing purposes | and are NOT valid host addresses. Go back and read your IETF docs. | The whole point of netmasks is to create these special addresses. | You'll confuse the h*ll out of any routers, screw up any BGP, ARP or | RARP tables and generally hose a raft of other things. Do NOT use them | for hosts unless you like debugging flakey networks. Ok, which RFC says you can not use them? James
