2007/631 Class E IP Address Configuration

[Sangeeta Misra]

James Carlson wrote:

>Sangeeta Misra writes:
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>>James Carlson wrote:
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>>>You can't plumb it, and still won't be able to once this project
>>>integrates.  It's outside the scope.  (Perhaps, for completeness, the
>>>IN_CLASSE macro ought to exclude it explicitly.  That sounds like a
>>>code review issue, though.)
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>>CLASSE macro does exclude 255.255.255.255.in my code changes.
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>It's not part of the definition of Class E space, though, is it?
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 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fuller-240space-00.txt

says the Class E range is :

range 240.0.0.0 through 255.255.255.255 

But it goes on to say: 

   Note that the broadcast address, 255.255.255.255, still must be
   treated specially in each case: it is illegal as a source IP address,
   it is illegal as an network interface address, and it matches the
   local system when used as the destination address in a received
   datagram.

So there is a slight contradiction in the draft, but the note about broadcast address makes it clear
that 255.255.255.255 should not be considered to be a valid address to assign to a machine. So I simply exclude it
from my IN_CLASSE macro.


Sangeeta