Hi! Why not? It CAN. You said about /24 bounded into one ethernet network. But for example I am giving my users real IP over VPN connection. As it is point-to-point connection, there is no network and broadcast addresses at all, and x.x.x.0, x.x.x.255 works. Same is for dial-up. But! Seldom I am experiencing some problems with that kind of addresses. There is a number misconfigured "antihackers" filters on the Net blocks .0 and .255 as they thinks it is always broadcasts. A bit soul-save discussion with such admins usually fixes the problem ;)
Thomas, all,
I'd welcome discussion/feedback on it, and this list seems as good a place as any.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-narten-iana-rir-ipv6-considerat ions-00.txt
This is nit-picking, but for the sake of clarity:
2.7. Utilization
In IPv4, the utilization of a chunk of address space is defined as the ratio of the actual number of host assignments to the theoretical maximum number of host assignments. For example, a /24 in IPv4 can number 256 hosts [...]
A /24 can't number 256 hosts; it can number 254.
Niall
-- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)