Hi. /31 on ethernet links

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Sebastian Hyrwall wrote:
> Is there any way to use /31's on ordinary ethernet links in 7.2?  
> "ifconfig addr dest-addr" does not work either. It keeps setting the  
> last ip as broadcast.

A /31 subnet is only defined for point-to-point network links, per:

   http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3021.txt

Ordinary ethernet links have BROADCAST flag set instead of POINTOPOINT.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck