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Re: IP backbone numbering/naming

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Fri Nov 15 18:54:20 2002

Very old thread!

   Private hosts can communicate with all other hosts
   inside the enterprise, both public and private. However, they cannot
   have IP connectivity to any host outside of the enterprise.

   All other hosts will be public and will use globally unique address
   space assigned by an Internet Registry.

Then you have the policy that its best to filter any rfc1918 packets ingress
which then leads on to broken path mtu, missing traceroute hops... etc..

for the tiny number of addresses you need on p2p why does your boss care. 

Steve

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Steve Rude wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to collect information about using RFC 1918 space on an ISP 
> backbone.  I have read the RFC several times, and I don't see where it 
> says that you cannot use 10/8 space to number your backbone links (/30s).  
> 
> I know this is an old thread that has been rehashed several times, but can 
> anyone please send me links or information that I can use to convince my 
> boss that we should use our arin alloc'd space on our backbone instead of 
> using private space.
> 
> Also if anyone has opinions on naming conventions for backbone such as why 
> to or why not to even have dns resolution for your backbone and some 
> conventions please let me know.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> --
> Steve Rude
> [email protected]
> 
>