> IIRC, RFC 1812 states that it's perfectly OK to use the first and last
> numbers of a given range of IPs.  There's never been a problem with using
> your network address, and as long as you configure your system to use a
> different broadcast address, there shouldn't be a problem using that
> either.  You might run into a problem if you have an old router or
> something tho...

That's extremely ugly; I wouldn't even so much as attempt that, even if
I could.  It's very likely that you'd run into problems when you added
or changed a host...
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