In RFC1213 (MIB-2), when can ipAdEntBcastAddr be zero? The description
of this field is:
ipAdEntBcastAddr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER
ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION
"The value of the least-significant bit in the
IP
broadcast address used for sending datagrams on
the (logical) interface associated with the IP
address of this entry. For example, when the
Internet standard all-ones broadcast address is
used, the value will be 1. This value applies
to
both the subnet and network broadcasts addresses
used by the entity on this (logical) interface."
::= { ipAddrEntry 4 }
After a bit of web browsing, I see discussion that some old networks
used zero's instead of one's for the broadcast address. Does
ipAdEntBcastAddr exist to support these old networks? If I don't care
about these networks, can I hardcode ipAdEntBcastAddr to 1?
Thanks
Jon.