[67160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Feb 3 15:13:18 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:11:41 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040203193426.GC58055@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Niels Bakker wrote:
>>
>>
>
>Just like the extra chopping up of the data you want to send into more
>packets, it's things you have to do a few extra times. That takes time.
>There is no way around this. What Leo wrote is in no way wrong.
>
>
>
>
Maybe we need to define what the expression "huge difference" means in
this context. Previously
it has been defined as 1.4% difference which in my opinion qualifies as
understatement of the day.
If we would be talking about 20% or more difference here, the pain from
larger MTU might be tolerable.
>>ACL checks I can agree on, but if you are optimizing the system, what
>>do you need ACL?s for anyway because you can make the applications
>>secure in the first place?
>>
>>
>
>You're trolling, right?
>
>
>
No. IŽll trust my digital signatures over the source IP filters any day.
Pete
