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Re: what's that smell?

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Tue Oct 08 19:23:54 2002

>> What is difficult about dropping packets sourced from RFC1918 addresses
>> before they leave your network?
> But what's the point?

rfc 1918 sec 3

   Because private addresses have no global meaning, routing information
   about private networks shall not be propagated on inter-enterprise
   links, and packets with private source or destination addresses
   should not be forwarded across such links.