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Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Wed Oct 9 15:50:53 2002

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:53:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: jabley@isc.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021009174754.AAA18342@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> >Do you have experience of such breakage from your own customers? It
> >would be interesting to hear details.
> 
> 	Loss of ICMP packets generated by links with endpoints numbered in RFC1918
> space. Holes in traceroutes, broken PMTU detection.

Why do those links have endpoints in RFC1918 space to begin with?

Alex


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