On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Jan Bobrowski wrote:
> > > Kernel refuses to set gateway address to one having zeroed host
> > > part (ADDR & ~MASK == 0). I can't find any RFC that forbids it.
> >
> > You're trying to use the network address as gateway.
> > That's not supposed to be done, so refusing it seems
> > a good default.
>
> There's no such thing as "network address" in classless world.
> If you use netmasks you can't describe your network using single
> address.
Indeed, you need to describe your network using both
the network address and the netmask, eg:
192.168.0.0/16 or 192.168.192.0/20
Sure, the network address could in theory be used for
a device, but in practice nobody does that because it
isn't supported by all devices...
regards,
Rik
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