[141984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consequences of BGP Peering with Private Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Jun 15 12:56:14 2011
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:54:41 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: James Grace <james@cs.fiu.edu>
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On 15/06/2011 17:47, James Grace wrote:
> So we're running out of peering space in our /24 and we were considering
> using private /30's for new peerings. Are there any horrific
> consequences to picking up this practice?
yes. it causes nasty problems if you use urpf (as you should), in
particular with pmtu discovery and traceroute.
Nick
