On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > >> Or to ask it a different way, (and maybe this is the
> > >> solution) will all of the 10.x.x.x (and the other IPv4
> > >> private addresses) suddenly become globally broadcast?
> > 
> > >Please define 'global broadcast'
> > 
> > Think of it as if they were now suddenly 1::10:x:x:x, valid 
> > on the public
> > internet, and "routable" even though they were private 
> > before. This is what
> > I meant by "global" probably pore phrasing, but this example 
> > should show
> > what I was asking.
> 
> 1:: ? I hope you meant what other people proposed as
> 2002::10.x.x.x which is just a direct map of IPv4's
> RFC1918 space of which 10/8 is one of them.

There's a caveat to using 2002:FOO (where FOO is in private address
space).  If any implementation in the network has 6to4 pseudo-interface
enabled, the packets it sends in that network will be blackholed.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but one has to be careful when proclaiming it 
as a solution.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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