From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 12 13:06:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA3CA11124 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22c.google.com (mail-ig0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7772486B for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luzar722@gmail.com) Received: by igbkq10 with SMTP id kq10so72898011igb.0 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:06:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=p5zE9IAI1wy2SzCel6nxpCAyjnXR0mcFHrbRO/CY5/w=; b=aBEK94P5X622odv8Rp+CTjh6CsLh49Mh+NThMyELoPePHb/aXvnkob7sQOzCbQd7dm FTKHQ4fWR719TrPgLq9IZMF/j/Kasg+CDEK+IGbvfU/HkOizmRIFfrB5O60oVDNXhm6g Er1nbW/t4QDD6X1pOxgGRX8xKvLiueijHiQrYCPPUxdCFoVuMcxj5BBz/+QEEi2co/UY zFcQ5E5DiRb0/LsDkb7UfxuuOdlQheTP5TnUKO91C8PufR/NzkDZIM3v131o4eAdLY2B DKjolqfhgBwVnwsMl0E7sF7xC/xq0JcqKcMBwU9wWaodsJSJA9OdWz3gblmRc5leEEIx CKDg== X-Received: by 10.50.82.71 with SMTP id g7mr12569051igy.65.1444655162796; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.3] (cpe-76-190-244-6.neo.res.rr.com. [76.190.244.6]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id ro9sm4133822igb.0.2015.10.12.06.06.01 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <561BB03D.1060104@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:06:05 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Are udp packets with non-routeable ip addresses valid on public network? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:06:03 -0000 Hello List I am receiving unsolicited inbound udp packets with a "to ip address" [10.0.10.1] of a computer on my LAN. Is this valid? Other tcp/udp packets from that LAN computer pass through the firewall NAT as expected. I added a firewall rule to block that packet and their are no outward signs of problems with that LAN computer. On other LAN PC's that run ms/windows and facebook or yahoo are sending out bound udp packets with "from ip address" containing their LAN ip address. I bock these also without any outward signs of problems. These packets are not being NAT'ed like other udp packets from that LAN PC are. I though non-routeable ip addresses are invalid on the public network. Any ideas on what is occurring here?