Re: Maybe I'm misreading this but...

[I Am Not An Isp <patrick () ianai net>]

At 04:58 PM 10/16/98 -0400, tvo wrote:
> Well, that is all fine and well if the device with the RFC1918 address is
> the one screaming "Too Boocoo!" but if it's some other box trying to tell
> it that the packets are too bug, no dice.  Non-routable address.

If you mean "if some device tries to tell the RFC1918 box the packet is too
large", this is correct.  However, the same reasoning shows that *ANY*
session opened between an RFC1918 box and a random host on the Internet
will break as well.

I suppose you could be talking about a one-way transmission of data from
the RFC1918 box to a random host.  If so, yes, you are SOL.  I just don't
see a whole lot of that. ;)

TTFN,
patrick

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