James Kosin wrote:
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| 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?
Well, let's see, RFC1517-1520 and RFC1817. Basically any RFC that
has to do with CIDR. Using the broadcast or network address
violates CIDR rules.
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