[SOLVED] Routing to internet addresses ending with 255

Manolis Kiagias sonicy at otenet.gr
Fri May 16 17:11:12 UTC 2008



Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Checking with the internal log of the router confirmed the suspicions 
>> of people answering my question: The adsl router is responsible for 
>> the problem with the 255 address. It seems it cuts out these 
>> addresses as some kind of "attack". No changes in configuration 
>> (firewall, protection and so on) on the router itself disables it. It 
>> seems I will have to live with it ;) Oh well...
>
> software designed "heard" somewhere that .0 and .255 addresses are not 
> end nodes, and software simply drops all packet like that.
>
> please tell what router is it, to warn others.
>
> my bet is TP-LINK.
>

Actually, it is a Sagem...


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