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Unless of course I block ICMP for the purposes of denying traceroute but still allow DF/etc. Then it's not "broken" as you say. -- David Temkin On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:50:05 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Dave Temkin <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected] > > > > > > Needs is a tough call. Plenty of networks block ICMP at the border and > > could very well be using 1918 addressing in between and you'd have no > > idea. > > And the network is broken. > > People persist in blocking ICMP and then complain when things don't > work right. Even if you explain why blocking ICMP is breaking > something, they say "ICMP is evil and we have to block it". OK. they > are broken and when things don't work, they need to tell their > customers that they are choosing to run a network that does not work > correctly. (Not that I expect anyone to do this.) > > I don't see anything "tough" about this call. >
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