Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

Tue Feb 3 18:40:22 UTC 2004

Niels Bakker wrote:

>* pete at he.iki.fi (Petri Helenius) [Tue 03 Feb 2004, 15:42 CET]:
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>>Me wonders why people ask for 40 byte packets at linerate if the mtu
>>is supposedly larger?
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>Support for the worst-case scenario.  Same why you spec support for
>a BIGINT-line ACL without excessive impact on forwarding capacity.
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Why large MTU then? Most modern ethernet controllers don´t care if 
you´re sending
1500 or 9000 byte packets. (with proper drivers taking advantage of the 
features there)
If you´re paying for 40 byte packets anyway, there is no incentive to 
ever go beyond 1500
byte MTU.

Pete