On 17/05/2016 16:31, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I just received a bug report for shncpd from somebody who noted that > shncpd's DHCPv4 server will happily assign addresses a.b.c.0 and a.b.c.255 > to clients. That's obviously broken. As others have pointed out, that's actually perfectly legal. However some operators have (had?) "classful" firewall rules that prohibit packets that come from IP addresses that would have been considered a broadcast address in a pre-CIDR world. This very problem bit me on the backside back in about 2001 when I had to update the RADIUS server I had written to prevent it from issuing .0 and .255 because my DSL customers getting assigned those addresses couldn't reach Microsoft's website. Ray _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
