[BlueOnyx:14018] Re: Problem setting interface alias netmask to 255.255.255.255

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Chris,

> 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...

More coffee is always good. :-)

But yeah, it's nuts for all the reasons you mentioned. With a setup like
that you can kiss security good bye. It's most likely that any
neighboring box can snoop on all the network traffic in the same subnet.
Which then also makes you wonder what else they're doing the "lazy way".

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber