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Re: Bogon list

  • From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
  • Date: Wed Jun 05 04:37:35 2002
  • Distribution: cistron
  • Newsgroups: lists.nanog
In article <[email protected]>,
Sean M. Doran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>| Why treat exchange subnets differently to any other bit of backbone 
>| infrastructure? 
>
>Oh, I wholeheartedly agree.  I would love them all to use RFC 1918
>addresses, because it is VERY VERY VERY rare that anything outside
>the scope in which the 1918 local use addresses are unique actually
>has to communicate with backbone infrastructure of any type.

And again Path MTU discovery gets broken.

>What communication can your workstation have with an XYZNET router?

Receive ICMP size exceeded packets ?

I haven't seen a 'icmp source lo0' interface command yet. Hopefully
it will be added for ipv6 so exchanges can use link-local addressing
(ipv6 has no fragmentation, PMTUd is mandatory).

Mike.