Re: RFC 1918

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

Yo Steve!

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> No -- 1918 addresses would only break PMTU if folks did ingress or 
> egress filtering for 1918 addresses.
I know many routers that do this, so we are back to YES.

> A much bigger cause of the 
> breakage firewalls that block the ICMP message.  
Agreed.

> And most people don't 
> notice or care, because there's been so little need for PMTU in recent 
> years.  But that will change, as assorted tunneling technologies become 
> more popular.
Hop on ever to the linux-ipsec group if you want to see a group
of people this is driving crazy.

RGDS
GARY
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