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[email protected] (Dave O'Shea) writes: > >> 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. :-) As the "normal human in the course of downloading nude .gif's" should be using Path MTU Discovery, I think you're agreeing.... Tony p.s. .gif's are obsolete. Most everything is .jpg's, .mpg's, and .avi now. ;-)
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