Re: RFC 1918

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>]

"Richard A. Steenbergen" wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>
> > When ISPs choose to mark their packets with Internet-illegal
> > addresses, they are contributing to these problems. Sorry, but
> > you're not supposed to be using these addresses anyway.
>
> This is utterly stupid. You can use these addresses any way you see
> fit, you can source packets from them if you'd like, and they are as
> valid as any other address to use and be "on the internet".

What's dumber?

 a) Filtering illegal packets from entering your network because
    they use your internal address range, because they are classed
    unroutable and should never appear on that interface, or both

-or-

 b) Sending packets that you KNOW will be dropped or filtered by
    a good portion of their intended recipients.

Let's try to do this without the name calling.

Thanks.

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