On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:19:44PM +0100, The Pal / Patrik Bodin wrote:
> On 2001-03-01 11:17, Devin L. Ganger wrote to The Pal / Patrik Bodin
> about...:
> DLG> For all intents and purposes, RFC1918 addresses are non-existing. As
> DLG> long as all the machines that *need* to talk to that router as an
> DLG> endpoint know how to route to it, it should be fine.
> As a courtesy to people that end up wanting to talk to the router? There
> are legal occasions where people may want to ping or traceroute. If you
> don't want that you might as well make it transparent.
What are the realistic differences between using a private address on
your router and configuring your router such that it doesn't respond to
outside packets destined directly to it?
(Excluding Path MTU Discovery, of course, which, while useful, isn't
mandatory to use.)
--
Devin L. Ganger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A guy, his car, his miss, his nerve;
He kissed his miss and missed the curve.
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