Subject: Re: host address zero - useable?
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/01/1999 21:20:51
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 05:54:26PM -0800, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> One place to begin is our PPP support. Can we get away with a netmask of
> 255.255.255.254?
> 

I don't understand what's wrong with a mask of 255.255.255.255.  A PPP
interface is a *point-to-point* link.  Systems which require non-p2p
netmasks for PPP interfaces are broken; afaik we are not.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"