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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:56:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   private network on router's external NIC?
Message-ID:  <199808172256.PAA27265@kjsl.com>
In-Reply-To: <35D8A7E8.2DC50695@partitur.se>
References:  <35D8A7E8.2DC50695@partitur.se>

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Palle Girgensohn writes:

 > Makes sense to me. So, how do these ip numbers get out on the Internet?

	Talk to your upstream peer, he's the one sending them
to you. They could originate from within his network.

 > How do they get routed anywhere; they're supposed to be private?

	I've seen packets destined for 172.16 also, another one of
the "private" networks. They're probably crafted packets with a
bogus source IP address.

-jav

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