assigning .0 and .255 addresses to clients?

Frank Sweetser fs at WPI.EDU
Sat Nov 19 22:58:01 UTC 2011



On 11/19/2011 5:28 PM, Ed Ravin wrote:
> Also somewhat off-topic, has anyone experienced trouble in recent
> years with assigning clients IP addresses that end in .0 or .255?

Nope.  We still run into broken clients now and then (mostly embedded devices 
that still think "DCHP" is just a typo for "BOOTP"), but not that particular 
problem.

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Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu    |  For every problem, there is a solution that
Manager of Network Operations   |  is simple, elegant, and wrong.
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