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From: fin@UF.MSC.UMN.EDU ("Craig Finseth")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Subnet 0
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Date: 15 Sep 89 19:11:24 GMT
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	Is is "allowed" (i.e., technically legal)?

Undefined.  Network number 0 means "this net."  By analogy subnet
number 0 means "this subnet."  You won't find this mentioned anywhere
official, that's why it is undefined.

	Is it a "good idea?"

Definite no.  It will work mostly, in some circumstances.  It is not
guaranteed to work "properly."  If you look hard enough (or if someone
installs some new equipment on Friday afternoon), you will find some
equipment that it won't work with

I suggest that you ease the users of that subnet to a new one as soon
as convenient.

BTW, Are you the Andy Kobayashi that I knew from Carolingia?  If so,
hello.  If not, my apologies for the mistake.

Craig A. Finseth			fin@msc.umn.edu [CAF13]
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.	(612) 624-3375
(Cayle of Firwood)