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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:39:40 -0600
To: Bo Fussing <bmf@gateway.net.hk>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: Private IP Addressing on Routers
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At 05:40 PM 1/23/98 +0800, Bo Fussing wrote:
>Has anyone ever tried to use private IP addresses as described by RFC 1497
>on internal interfaces of routers, for example on the interfaces at two
>ends of a leased line?

Or run IP'less, if the router supports it.  Either works.

All private networks should be blocked at the egress router and never
annouced.


Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
mountin.man@mixcom.com