Re: (PM) Wierd routing question (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:31:08 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Matt Willey shaped the electrons to say...
>Ok, I went out and checked my subnets. This networks subnet is
>255.255.255.128. The ports on my 2ER are set to this address. However the
>active subnets on the ports shows as 255.255.255.255. Hmm, something is being
>overridden.

DANGER! The dialin user ports SHOULD and MUST have 255.255.255.255.
Dialin ports SHOULD NOT share the netmask from the ether. If they did
your routing would be shot to hell.

I just explained this here the other day...

-MZ

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