""Mossburg, Geoff (MAN-Corporate)""  wrote in
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> I'm full of questions tonight...
> My company's Catalyst 6509's MSFC has VLANs configured with IP addresses
in
> the x.x.x.1 format, but I've noticed that I can telnet to the MSFC by
> substituting x.x.x.0 or x.x.x.255 for any of the VLAN addresses. Is this
> normal??? It seems to me like it may be a security risk, but I really
don't
> know enough about VLANs to be sure. Any ideas?


this might seem like a dumb question, but are there vlans or even hosts with
the paticular address?

in a subnet with a prefix shorter than /24, the 0 or the 255 might be a
legitimate host address.

could be a bug too, but I'd want to know the prefix length and more detail.



> Geoff Mossburg




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