[52703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what's that smell?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 8 19:22:09 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:20:47 +0900
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> What is difficult about dropping packets sourced from RFC1918 addresses
>> before they leave your network?
> But what's the point?
rfc 1918 sec 3
Because private addresses have no global meaning, routing information
about private networks shall not be propagated on inter-enterprise
links, and packets with private source or destination addresses
should not be forwarded across such links.