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Re: address spoofing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Apr 23 16:10:42 1999

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:09:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu (North America Network Operators Group)
In-Reply-To: Phillip Vandry's message
	of "Friday, April 23, 1999 14:08:55 -0400"
	regarding "Re: address spoofing "
	id <199904231808.OAA16776@Iodine.Mlink.NET>
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[ On Friday, April 23, 1999 at 14:08:55 (-0400), Phillip Vandry wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: address spoofing 
>
> ...and I'd certainly like to see my ICMP unreachables which are vital to
> path MTU discovery not blocked.

That'll actually only happen if the router that needs to fragment also
uses RFC1918 addresses on one or more of its ports -- which would be a
totally brain-damaged configuration, to say the least.

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