Hi Anton, David, 
I agree with Anton. One could possibly make it work for P2MP - however, this is 
more than simply an OSPF problem. 
Acee 
On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Anton Smirnov wrote:

>    Hi David,
>    problem of unnumbered IP on broadcast interfaces has little to do 
> with OSPF. There are certain checks and assumptions built into IPv4 
> architecture which prevent this (say, how ARP requests are accepted and 
> validated; check concept of proxy ARP). So before you solve this problem 
> in OSPF you should be messing with IPv4 basics and legacies of earlier 
> days. At this point in time this is not interesting.
>    As for /32 mask on broadcast interface see 
> draft-ietf-ospf-prefix-hiding-04.
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
> On 06/23/2012 11:00 PM, David Lamparter wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:17:40PM -0400, Acee Lindem wrote:
>>> Nobody has ever suggested this - why do think it useful?
>> 
>> Oops - context:  Unnumbered operation on broadcast media, and on that
>> principle reduction of both IPv4 address consumption and configuration
>> complexity.
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 23, 2012, at 9:31 AM, David Lamparter wrote:
>>>> out of a rather funny misunderstanding of RFC 5309, I've ended up with
>>>> half an implementation of OSPF running in ignorance of the IP subnet
>>>> mask on a broadcast network.  After cleaning up the misunderstanding and
>>>> taking a step back, I found draft-ietf-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp, which
>>>> I expected to contain a note about this, but no such thing.
>>>> 
>>>> The general idea would be to operate a broadcast medium with a /32
>>>> subnet mask, possibly unnumbered, and allowing adjacencies with just
>>>> about anything that sends a Hello (and passes auth).
>>>> 
>>>> The link can operate as regular broadcast, hybrid-bcast-p2mp, or P-t-P
>>>> (the last would amount to RFC 5309 with the detail that the peer address
>>>> is not known up front.)
>>>> 
>>>> (For OSPFv3, this is obviously not interesting since with link-local
>>>> addresses, there is no notion of similar same-subnet restrictions.)
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't found anything on this - is this mode of operation already
>>>> described somewhere?
>> 
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