From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 20:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DCD37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3S3jLk77456; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Tony Landells" , "Nick Rogness" Cc: "Chris Hardie" , Subject: RE: Confusion about router/firewall traffic from router itself Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:45:21 -0700 Message-ID: <00e301c0cf95$a64cc660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200104270346.NAA26236@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even better is use of "IP Unnumbered" but unfortunately it appears that FreeBSD doesen't support this Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tony Landells >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:46 PM >To: Nick Rogness >Cc: Chris Hardie; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Confusion about router/firewall traffic from router itself > > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message