Comment 12 for bug 1177196

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Aaron Rosen (arosen) wrote :

Can you point me to anything that says a /32 isn't a valid subnet ?

@Brian it doesn't actually reserve a bcast address for /31, /32

root@arosen-laptop:/home/arosen# ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.1/32
root@arosen-laptop:/home/arosen# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:6c:8f:1a:a9:31
          inet addr:192.168.3.1 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:0.0.0.0

root@arosen-laptop:/home/arosen# ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.1/31
root@arosen-laptop:/home/arosen# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:6c:8f:1a:a9:31
          inet addr:192.168.3.1 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.254

I agree though this isn't very useful but I don't see why we shouldn't support it over not supporting it.