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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 15:41:52 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ctm 
Message-ID:  <20947.865107712@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 12:49:24 BST." <l03020902afb5beb3f221@[194.32.164.2]> 

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Bob Bishop wrote in message ID
<l03020902afb5beb3f221@[194.32.164.2]>:
> >15  10.1.1.3 (10.1.1.3)  230 ms  187 ms  187 ms

> Eeek! Noone should be advertising a route to 10.x.x.x (see RFC1918). Try
> shouting at mci.net

I doubt that they are advertising it, just using it internally. You do
not need to advertise net10 through BGP to return it as a hop in a
traceroute... IMHO, net 10 (and the other 1918 networks) should NOT be
visable at all from the rest of the 'net, not even to
traceroute. Unfortunately, I've been told that a combination of the
NIC being extremely miserly with new IP allocations, and security
problems in router/terminal server software is causing more and more
systems to be put into RFC1918 address space.

The implications are interesting ... I filter my inbound lines to
remove illegal src IP addresses (like the 1918 addresses). So what
happens when one of those systems on a reserved network sends a reply
to path MTU discovery that the packet needs to be fragmented?

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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