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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
> From: Avi Freedman <[email protected]> > ... > > I'd like to know the answer to this (re: PAIX. No other exchange that I > > know of gives IPs for use by non-routers that aren't RA machines). > ... > > But that doesn't stop people from attaching hosts into the NAP infrastructure. > I pointed this out on the mae-west list a few weeks ago. There are quite a > few providers at mae-west who plug the NetEdge at their end into a FDDI > ring which has multiple IP subnets on it, one of them the NAP addresses, > and another for their local boxes. Since the NetEdge is a filtering bridge, > it seems like it would isolate the traffic, but it DOESN'T STOP BROADCAST > TRAFFIC. So you get lots of CDP packets, rwhod packets, RIP packets, internal > ARP requests, and who knows what else floating around the entire exchange point. Yes, and this *IS* a problem. But none of those had a 198.32.136.x address... The bigger problem (the one I was thinking about) would be someone putting a host on 192.41.177.x or 192.157.69.x or 198.32.136.x or ... Most providers carry the 192.41.177/24 (MAE-East) etc... routes and "know" how to get to them, so any machine hooked up with the IP out of the network of a major XP has the potential to get "free" full or partial Internet connectivity. *That*'s the big problem you have to make sure to avoid if you want people to play with you (if you're an XP operator). Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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