Re: Private networks and home.{net|com}

[dr () DURSEC COM (Dragos Ruiu)]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

> As was just recently discussed in the "Strange traceroute" thread here,
> @Home uses 10/8 addresses on their internal links.  They don't show up
> in the default-free routing tables.
> I suspect they do this in an attempt to make their internal routers
> less vulnerable to attack.
> Bruce.

Unsing 10/8 also saves you from having to use up valuable "real"
routable ip addresses for the modems which need to be
individually adressable.

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