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Date:      Fri, 02 Oct 1998 12:45:07 -0400
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Firewall with 2 NIC and a NET class C
Message-ID:  <199810021645.MAA15684@laker.net>

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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:56:43 -0500 (CDT), Jasper O'Malley wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Mike wrote:
>
>> "Our recommendation is to obtain and use registered IP addresses if at
>> all possible.  If you must use private IP addresses, then use the ones
>> specified by RFC1597, but beware that you're setting youself up for
>> later problem[s]."
>> 
>> _Building Internet Firewalls_, Ch. 4, p. 90
>> D. Brent Chapman & Elizabeth D. Zwicky
>
>That's fine and well, but how old is that book? RFC 1597 was
>obsoleted by RFC 1918 in February, 1996. What rationale do the
>authors employ for suggesting that registered IP addresses behind the
>firewall will be "setting yourself up for later problem[s]?"

Reread it.  It appears to me that they said you'll have problems later
if you use non-registered addresses.
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