It shouldn't cause any problem. Octets are purely display artefacts in a classless environment, and so having an octet whose bits all happen to be zero is fine. You can't give a host an address whose host portion is all zeroes because that's the network address, but you're specifying a network address, and there's no restriction on zero bits there except for a few reserved ranges.
(I used to have an internal management station whose IP address was 172.16.0.255, mask 255.255.0.0. I lost track of how many people thought that was illegal -- which made it a good place for a machine people shouldn't be randomly poking at....) David Gillett > -----Original Message----- > From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Covington, Chris > Sent: April 3, 2003 11:42 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [FW-1] zeros subnet question > > > Hi all, > > Has anyone had problems using a subnet such as 192.168.0.0 MASK > 255.255.255.0? Would that interfere in any way with a site-to-site > remote network of 192.168.2.0, 192.168.69.0 etc.? > > thanks, > Chris > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > ================================================= To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
