[address-policy-wg] FWD: [GLOBAL-V6] draft-narten-iana-rir-ipv6-considerations-00.txt

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Max Tulyev wrote:
> But! Seldom I am experiencing some problems with that kind of addresses. There
> is a number misconfigured "antihackers" filters on the Net blocks .0 and .255
> as they thinks it is always broadcasts. A bit soul-save discussion with such
> admins usually fixes the problem ;)

Unfortunately this is not the experience I have from the field. We're using
superneted /20 blocks composed out of `class c'-ranges for cable-tv broadband
customers. I had to change the DHCP-server to prevent the assignment of .0 and
.255 since we've got a lot of problems with such misconfigured filters in the
net and we didn't have the time for all those 'soul-save' discussions with
admins not understanding the concept of classless ip-routing.

Patrick