[20576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Maybe I'm misreading this but...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Fri Oct 16 17:42:09 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:07:56 -0700
To: tvo <tvo@EnterZone.Net>
From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981016165624.12146A-100000@Plaything.EnterZo
ne.Net>
At 04:58 PM 10/16/98 -0400, tvo wrote:
>Well, that is all fine and well if the device with the RFC1918 address is
>the one screaming "Too Boocoo!" but if it's some other box trying to tell
>it that the packets are too bug, no dice. Non-routable address.
If you mean "if some device tries to tell the RFC1918 box the packet is too
large", this is correct. However, the same reasoning shows that *ANY*
session opened between an RFC1918 box and a random host on the Internet
will break as well.
I suppose you could be talking about a one-way transmission of data from
the RFC1918 box to a random host. If so, yes, you are SOL. I just don't
see a whole lot of that. ;)
TTFN,
patrick
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