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 then put another box on the network as 192.168.1.7, and give it a
> netmask of 255.255.255.128 (/25), it should not be able to see
> 192.168.1.200.  Broadcast packets from 192.168.1.7 would be going to
> 192.168.1.128 (its "view" of the network would be 192.168.1.0 to
> 192.168.1.128).

And this is also wrong (off-by-one on the broadcast address).  It should
have read:

> If you then put another box on the network as 192.168.1.7, and give it a
> netmask of 255.255.255.128 (/25), it should not be able to see
> 192.168.1.200.  Broadcast packets from 192.168.1.7 would be going to
> 192.168.1.127 (its "view" of the network would be 192.168.1.0 to
> 192.168.1.127).

This is what I get for handling two MPLS network outages at the same
time while trying to write this mail.

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