rfc1918 ignorant

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Wed Jul 23 17:51:00 UTC 2003


> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dave Temkin <dave at ordinaryworld.com>
> Sender: owner-nanog at 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)
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