[BlueOnyx:14016] Re: Problem setting interface alias netmask to 255.255.255.255

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hey Michael,

On 11/13/2013 6:38 AM, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> That screams "amateur" to me.
>
> Hehehe ... I didn't want to say it that bluntly, but yeah ... that
> thought also crossed my mind. ;-)


Yeah, well I suppose people are going to wonder "why did Chris wake up 
in such a foul mood?"   :)   LOL....  I think I just neglected to 
activate the "polite filter" this morning.

So I shall go brew a cup of coffee and activate politeness filtering.

But the suggestion to have a customer use a /32 for anything other than 
router-to-router communication still drives me bonkers.  Thinking about 
the record-keeping necessary on the host's end to keep track of a bunch 
of random IP addresses that are assigned willy-nilly to various 
customers makes my head spin.  Since they're clearly not using proper 
subnets, and therefore not splitting traffic into VLANs, I can only 
imagine they are using some sort of MAC restrictions.  Good grief...

See?  Maybe I really do need that coffee...

-- 
Chris Gebhardt
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