From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 20:46:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DAE37B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA96119; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:46:12 +1000 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26236; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:46:12 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200104270346.NAA26236@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Nick Rogness Cc: Chris Hardie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusion about router/firewall traffic from router itself In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Rogness of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:09:46 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:46:12 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nick@rogness.net said: > Your ISP connects to you with a non-routeable IPs????? Isn't it a great idea? Most point-to-point (WAN) links are an inconvenience that you wish could be made invisible but need addresses, so why not use "invisible" RFC 1918 addresses for them? Of course, there's a huge "opportunity" to stuff things up monumentally by advertising routing for these links (which would attract rubbish from all over the place), and it's a huge inconvenience for those that want to do what Chris has done and plug the link straight into his firewall. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message