BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Sun Aug 15 18:05:04 UTC 2010
> What's the current consensus on exempting private network space from
> source address validation? Is it recommended? Discouraged?
>
> (One argument in favor of exceptions is that it makes PMTUD work if
> transfer networks use private address space.)
and this is a good thing?
rfc1918 packets are not supposed to reach the public internet. once you
start accommodating their doing so, the downward slope gets pretty steep
and does not end in a nice place.
randy
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