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. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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