] Naiming Shen wrote: ] ] <SNIP> ] ] > If any IP users think using rfc1918 is a disaster, again, it's their ] > choice to avoid them(if they can get globally routable addresses). ] ] If one chooses to ignore any standards it's their problem. ] Which indeed is true. ] ] > there are many reasons to use rfc1918 addresses, not all related to ] > the internet security. ] ] Name and eloborate on them.
some examples which are not security specific: - to use the same gateway address in multiple locations for devices like laptops, assume someone does not want to run dhcp overhead. - someone does not want the addresses to be global dns reachable. some ISPs assign private addresses on all their backbone links just for that. the names showing up when they do internal troubleshooting, but not in external domain traceroute. - in router/etc documentation, its nice to have diagrams showing routers having 10.x.x.x addresses in their configuration examples, its not good to put legal addresses over there. - of course in v4, addresses are not free. - its safer to use private addresses during testing, e.g. routing protocol testing in lab. even if you leak out those addresses by mistake, the chances are your peer, or upstream is filtering them, so the damage is minimized. i think my point on this related to SL is that, the SL space is already carved and well known already to everyone, what is the point to reclaim it for "normal" use? though i'm absolutely against to have routing/dns support to SL. cheers. ] ] Greets, ] Jeroen ] ] ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ] IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List ] IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng ] FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng ] Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Naiming -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
