Re: Subnet 224.0.0.0/4

["Andrei D. Caraman" <adc@stone.floater.org>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:23:13PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:

> Could anyone please tell me what's so special on this subnet that ipmasq
> allows icmp and udp output to it? It's the only hard coded subnet I found in
> this package.


I remember once cutting that out from my firewall and losing the
eigrp connection between two cisco's as a consequence.  

That subnet is used for misc. multicast protocols.  See page 57
of RFC1700 (Assigned Numbers) for more information.



Regards,
adc