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It was probably added during the development of firmware for some cheap switch whose hardware did some unrecoverable nonsense when seeing such addresses in pack
by ogurechny 3y ago
It was probably added during the development of firmware for some cheap switch whose hardware did some unrecoverable nonsense when seeing such addresses in packets.
- mlyle 3y agoIn addition to various problems with UI/validation... a whole lot of networks/devices filtered 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.255 when ICMP amplification attacks were such a thing (and before we had better mitigations).
- toast0 3y agoNot likely a cheap switch. Cheap switches don't even look at IP; they just do ethernet and that's enough. More likely to be a slightly fancy switch, or terrible CPE for DSL/Cable.