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Re: classful routes redux
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:04:04 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
hostroute == /64 (and just think of all that spam than can originate from all those "loose" IP addresses in that /64 for your local SMTP server!!! Yummy) -- Oat Willieok... so is it -just- me that gets the willies thinking of the 2x64-1 available IPv6 addresses that can be forged as source addresses for spam origination? i REALLY want to have a tidy
but, but, but... ipv6 is more SECURE! :) I'm really not sure I understand why my LAN has to have more available ip space than the current Internet, but boy, it sure makes it easy to spam^H^H^H^Hfind available addresses! I view the 48/56/64 boundaries about like Woody does (and I suspect Mr. Narkins and Mr. Bush) they are in the documentation so people use them, it's not particularly a great idea, but it is an idea. (Oh, and some equipment won't do the lovely autoconfig unless you have a /64, someone should open a bug report on that)
Current thread:
- Re: classful routes redux, (continued)
- Re: classful routes redux Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 04)
- Re: classful routes redux Randy Bush (Nov 04)
- Re: classful routes redux Geoff Huston (Nov 04)
- Re: classful routes redux Randy Bush (Nov 04)
- Re: classful routes redux Geoff Huston (Nov 04)
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- Re: classful routes redux Geoff Huston (Nov 05)
- Re: classful routes redux Marshall Eubanks (Nov 05)
- Re: classful routes redux Paul Vixie (Nov 03)
- Re: classful routes redux Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux bmanning (Nov 02)
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- Re: classful routes redux Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Randy Bush (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux bmanning (Nov 02)
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- Re: classful routes redux Geoff Huston (Nov 02)
- Re: classful routes redux Robert E . Seastrom (Nov 03)
- Re: classful routes redux Paul Jakma (Nov 02)
- Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)