[189486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Tue May 31 02:01:10 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 01:00:41 -0500
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I am completely innocent of rfc1812, and have been out of the game for a
long time, but I am pretty sure I was taught (and in turn taught) that a
router would reply using the address of the interface that originated
the reply unless that interface was unnumbered, in which case it would
reply from the loop-back address.
Never too old to learn something.
--
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by
its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
life believing that it is stupid."
--Albert Einstein
From Larry's Cox account.
