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Re: 10.0.0

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Sat May 31 13:45:40 1997

[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.
;-)