Re: 10.0.0

["Dave O'Shea" <doshea () mail wiltel net>]

> > The only services that should be affected by the use of such "bogus"
> > addresses will be traceroute and any routing information passed by the
> > device.
>
> Unfortunately that's not quite true.
>
> There are a variety of services which rely on messages received from
> intermediate hops that would break if the the sending host happened
> to filter out RFC1918 addresses and a part of the network
> were using them.
>
> Probably the best example is Path MTU Discovery.

I meant "services used by normal humans in the course of downloading nude
.gif's", i.e., typical Internet customers. I stand by my statement. :-)