Err, honestly you are explaining it rather poorly! (Now, not to pick a fight, but just to clarify any confusion for folks who aren't clear trying to follow the discussion):
Earlier you said: "Hell, there is nothing keeping them from being routed across the internet as a whole. Road Runner has a 10.x network for all of their devices. Cable boxes, cable modems, etc." But what you said above is just plain wrong, and that's what people are taking issue with and spawned all the responses. Road Runner/TW/Cox/AT&T/Verizon whomever routing RFC1918 addresses across their network, even if it spans THE WORLD, is not the same as "routed across the internet as a whole." That implies those addresses/routes being accepted by other providers as valid routes and propagated across BORDER routers into other networks and public IP addresses spaces, and that just doesn't happen (or if it does, it's a mistake, and it's fixed). So if what you're trying to say is what you wrote below, that's fine (but it doesn't mean much), but this all started when you made the comment above, and that's what people are having issue with b/c it's just plain wrong. Agree or disagree? ;) BINO > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:54:34 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN <snip> > The short of it is: As long as the 1918 space isn't routed outside of > Road Runner's network they can use as much of the space as they want and > run it into your house, etc without any issues. > > Christopher Fisk
