[30075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1918
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Fri Jul 14 16:32:21 2000
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:54:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Reply-To: gary miller <gem@rellim.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Yo Steve!
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> No -- 1918 addresses would only break PMTU if folks did ingress or
> egress filtering for 1918 addresses.
I know many routers that do this, so we are back to YES.
> A much bigger cause of the
> breakage firewalls that block the ICMP message.
Agreed.
> And most people don't
> notice or care, because there's been so little need for PMTU in recent
> years. But that will change, as assorted tunneling technologies become
> more popular.
Hop on ever to the linux-ipsec group if you want to see a group
of people this is driving crazy.
RGDS
GARY
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