[ppml] 240/4

[Durand, Alain]

I just tried on my windows XP pro laptop to manually configure
the interface.
When I entered 240., I got a pop up window that told me that
240 was not a valid entry, I should use a value between 1 and 223.

   - Alain. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of David Williamson
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:28 PM
> To: bmanning at karoshi.com
> Cc: 'Public Policy Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [ppml] 240/4
> 
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:44:49AM +0000, bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:
> > 	i suggest that you attempt to use 240.240.240.0/24
> > 	on a subnet in your local infrastructure and then tell us
> > 	the results.  a more interesting case is when you route
> > 	between 240.240.240.0/24 and 240.77.77.0/24 ... real data 
> > 	would be most helpful in this debate.
> 
> Well, that's easy enough:
> 
> root at host15:~# uname -a
> SunOS host15 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc 
> root at host15:~# ifconfig iprb1 240.240.42.14
> ifconfig: SIOCSLIFADDR: iprb1: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> -David
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