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Re: Bogon list

  • From: Sabri Berisha
  • Date: Thu Jun 06 05:14:32 2002

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> Exchange point blocks SHOULDN'T be transited by anyone, therefore you
> should not hear them from your peers.

The combination of not having a globaly routable ixp-block and using
(perhaps the non-cisco equivalent of) ip verify unicast reverse-path can
brake pmtu discovery. Imagine a router sending a fragment-needed from its
ixp-address to a client and a router inbetween discarding the packet
because it doesn't have a route for it.

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Sabri Berisha
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