[48461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bogon list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Wed Jun 5 04:35:33 2002
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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:34:58 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.20020605013323.A7C1EC7936@cesium.clock.org>,
Sean M. Doran <smd@clock.org> wrote:
>
>| Why treat exchange subnets differently to any other bit of backbone
>| infrastructure?
>
>Oh, I wholeheartedly agree. I would love them all to use RFC 1918
>addresses, because it is VERY VERY VERY rare that anything outside
>the scope in which the 1918 local use addresses are unique actually
>has to communicate with backbone infrastructure of any type.
And again Path MTU discovery gets broken.
>What communication can your workstation have with an XYZNET router?
Receive ICMP size exceeded packets ?
I haven't seen a 'icmp source lo0' interface command yet. Hopefully
it will be added for ipv6 so exchanges can use link-local addressing
(ipv6 has no fragmentation, PMTUd is mandatory).
Mike.
