.255 and .0 addresses

[Volodymyr Yakovenko <]

Dear Colleagues,

 I am not quite sure that routing-wg@ is a right place to ask my question, but
 nothing more convenient came to my mind :-)

 I am trying to push one BIG telecom equipment vendor TAC to consider wrong 
 situation with assignment of IP addresses like xxx.xxx.xxx.0 and 
 xxx.xxx.xxx.255 from dynamic IP pools bigger than or equal to /24.

 Quick googling has not shown any STD or BCP documents, which could be used 
 as reference, but has shown number of pages, saying something like "do not 
 use .0 or .255 addresses, it could cause problems".

 Our small research has shown that some sites are not reachable from .255 and
 .0 addresses.

 Are there any published documents or strong research results which could be
 used as reference point to illustrate this problem existance?

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Regards,
Volodymyr.