Public Subnet re-assignments

[mel at beckman.org (Mel Beckman)]

Youâ??re using just the two middle IPs in the four that make up the /30 set, right? IOW, the subnet x.x.x.0/30 should have .0 and .3 unused (theyâ??re broadcast), and you use .1 and .2.

 -mel

> On Jun 25, 2019, at 9:41 AM, Scott <scott at viviotech.net> wrote:
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> First, sorry if this is a bit of a noob question.
> 
> I'm trying to find a way of preventing a slew of traffic to an IP, or
> IP's, when I join two /30 public subnets to a /29. It appears that while
> the ranges are /30 someone is trying to brute-force the network and/or
> broadcast addresses for the ranges. When I change them to be a /29, now
> the router sees the traffic and starts dropping packets. Are there any
> suggestions for mitigating this behavior or is it just the nature of the
> beast?
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