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Re: 10.0.0

  • From: Dave O'Shea
  • Date: Sat May 31 12:41:25 1997 
>> The only services that should be affected by the use of such "bogus"
>> addresses will be traceroute and any routing information passed by the
>> device.
>
>Unfortunately that's not quite true.
>
>There are a variety of services which rely on messages received from
>intermediate hops that would break if the the sending host happened
>to filter out RFC1918 addresses and a part of the network
>were using them.
>
>Probably the best example is Path MTU Discovery.

I meant "services used by normal humans in the course of downloading nude
.gif's", i.e., typical Internet customers. I stand by my statement. :-)