[59877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc1918 ignorant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Wed Jul 23 13:51:07 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:49:02 -0600
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, variable@ednet.co.uk,
"" <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0307231339160.27647-100000@ordinaryworld.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Dave Temkin wrote:
> Except you're making assumptions as to how that router is used.
>
> If it's being used for purely transit then your third paragraph doesn't
> apply at all. The traffic is not originating or terminating there, it
> is
> merely passing through.
When the router needs to send an ICMP packet back to the source it
becomes an originator.
--lyndon
