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[Rick Stevens]

James Kosin wrote:
> <<-snip-->>|
> | How can you say such a thing?  They are reserved for routing purposes
> | and are NOT valid host addresses.  Go back and read your IETF docs.
> | The whole point of netmasks is to create these special addresses.
> | You'll confuse the h*ll out of any routers, screw up any BGP, ARP or
> | RARP tables and generally hose a raft of other things.  Do NOT use them
> | for hosts unless you like debugging flakey networks.
> 
> Ok, which RFC says you can not use them?

Well, let's see, RFC1517-1520 and RFC1817.  Basically any RFC that
has to do with CIDR.  Using the broadcast or network address
violates CIDR rules.
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