[59880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc1918 ignorant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Wed Jul 23 13:58:13 2003
To: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
variable@ednet.co.uk
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:40:03 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.50.0307231339160.27647-100000@ordinaryworld.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:51:00 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
>
> 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.
And what are the ICMP packets doing on the net? They seem to be
originating from 1918 space. Nothing in the RFC says that ICMP does
not count.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
