[Gllug] Life on Mars

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, John Southern wrote:

> I have just run into my first martian source errors while setting up a 
> gateway. *
>
> After this I had to set up a NAS box and decided to use the martian IP 
> address internally (225.0.0.x). Damn Small Linux refused to assign this 
> address no matter how hard I tried. Do other distros stop this IP 
> address or was I just unlucky?


Addresses 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255 are multicast addresses. 
Chances are, all distros will refuse to set an interface to 225.0.0.x.


>
> Regards
> John
>

Christian
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