Re: 10.0.0

[Tony Li <tli () jnx com>]

doshea () mail wiltel net (Dave O'Shea) writes:

> > > 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. :-)

As the "normal human in the course of downloading nude .gif's" should be
using Path MTU Discovery, I think you're agreeing....

Tony

p.s. .gif's are obsolete.  Most everything is .jpg's, .mpg's, and .avi now.
;-)