Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NSIPO.NASA.GOV!medin From: medin@NSIPO.NASA.GOV ("Milo S. Medin", NASA ARC NSI Project Office) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Kenmore MicroWave Oven For Sale Message-ID: <8907200107.AA06625@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 20 Jul 89 01:07:23 GMT References: <34957@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Of course, this is an illegal activity, as net 224 is reserved for Multicast addresses. In particular 224.0.0.5 and 224.0.0.6 are assigned to the OSPF IGP routing protocol. I believe also that it is illegal to forward a packet from or to net 224 as this is part of the range of addresses are that are explicitly single-hop! Thanks, Milo