What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:46AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> If you put a machine on that network as 192.168.1.200, and give it a
> netmask of 255.255.255.0, it will respond to any packets destined to
> 192.168.1.100 (obviously), but will also respond to packets destined to
> the broadcast address (192.168.1.255).

Argh.  The line:

"... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.100 ..."

Should have read:

"... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.200 ..."

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