[134774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST IPv6 document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Jan 10 18:44:49 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:44:42 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C35FBE07-066E-45A3-8C0E-C5074AEA9ADE@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/10/2011 5:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Unless my point-to-point links are originating packets to the outside world
> (they should not be, in general), then I should not expect any PMTU-D
> responses directed at them.
>
> As such, blocking even those packets TO my point-to-point interfaces
> should not be problematic.
>
Unless the router responds to traceroutes with it's loopback, I'd expect
ping traffic to p2p addresses. I'd also expect to see customer
traceroutes originating from the p2p address (useful in troubleshooting
as it uses an address outside the customer's BGP addresses.
Jack
