Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 06:45:13AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:This approach is not without its hazards though. Consider if you were a customer of an ISP who uses RFC 1918 addresses for its DHCP servers.Although that is trivially fixed by adding specific routes for the addresses of those servers.
Of course. But I'm reluctant to provide a feature for adding those routes because I suspect that it would increase the support load significantly. There seems to be a general lack of understanding of addressing and routing and the kernel's bizarrely worded Martian reporting doesn't help make problem diagnosis any easier.
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