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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:06:11 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are udp packets with non-routeable ip addresses valid on public network?
Message-ID:  <561CAD63.3040103@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <51462673-A972-40A4-A5AF-163834A154CC@elde.net>
References:  <561BB03D.1060104@gmail.com> <51462673-A972-40A4-A5AF-163834A154CC@elde.net>

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On 12/10/2015 19:32, Terje Elde wrote:
> On 12. okt. 2015, at 15:06, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>>> 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?

> It shouldn't be routes over the internet to you, but it's pretty
> common to use between your ISP and yourself, for things like DHCP.
> What are the port-numbers? 67/68 or thereabout?

Uh... DHCP usually uses just layer-2 (ie. Ethernet) addressing which is
a useful feature in a protocol designed to specify host IP addresses...
In those cases where you can't have a DHCP server on the same ethernet
segment, there is a specific default IP address range for a client host
to fall back to in order to make a layer-3 connection to a DHCP server
-- which is the 169.254.0.0/16 link-local address range.  See RFC 5735.

If his ISP was using 10.0.0.0/8 addresses for their customer-facing
network segments, I'm pretty sure the OP would have been told about it
and hence not be alarmed at seeing that traffic.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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