----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] martian source...
> If your machine is on the inward side of a filtering router ("firewall"),
> then you should add rulesets to the filtering router that drop & log
> packets that are addressed either from or to nonsensical addresses
> (broadcast addresses, RFC 1918 private-IP addresses, etc.). Any
> properly configured filtering router should already do this!
yes as what RFC 1812 (Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers) says especially
on martian address filtering (section 5.3.7) but for RFC 1918 (Address
Allocation for Private Internets), you may drop this packet between network
enterprises but you may legally route this packet within your network
enterprise as what section 2 category 1 stated...
fooler.
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