clint ip-address as broadcast address with mask

George-Cristian Bîrzan gcbirzan at constanta.rdsnet.ro
Tue Feb 14 11:33:57 CET 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:56 +0530, DilipSimha.N.M wrote:
> hi,
> 
> why does FREERADIUS accept the client ip-address as:
> aaa.aaa.aaa.255/32 ??? (in clients.conf)
> 
> this doesn't have any meaning as source address.

Think of netmasks bigger than /24. 10.0.0.0/23 could have 10.0.0.255 as
a host address.

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