[83622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tags
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Sanders)
Fri Aug 19 07:21:07 2005
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:50:39 +0530
From: Tom Sanders <toms.sanders@gmail.com>
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4305B8D2.6020401@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>=20
> The other side is where your customers are living. There are living real
> system and network managers who know what they are doing. I dont think th=
ey
> let slip RIP into your network.
ok
> But there are also people who believe in windows, who believe it makes se=
nse
> to use netbios packets in the internet. They dont even know their box is
> sending and receiving RIP.
I dont recollect any connection between Netbios and RIP. Am i missing
something? Even if some application is leaking the RIP packets, why
would they carry a tag in them?
I thought it was a field rarely used in the implementations.
>=20
> I dont believe in blocking internet packets, but I am shure it is a good
> idea blocking those RIP packets. They are definitely ment to stay in the
> local network. RIP was never meant for the internet. Only missconfigured
> router allow it to pass through.
>=20
> And I cannot imagine anybody using RIP packets for SSH or something like
> that :)
>=20
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
>
