Please help: ptp links addresses

• To: (Janos Zsako)
• From: Daniel Karrenberg < >
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:53:33 +0200

  > zsako@localhost (Janos Zsako) writes:
  > ... According to RFC 1918:
  > 
  >    Because private addresses have no global meaning, routing information
  >    about private networks shall not be propagated on inter-enterprise
  >    links, and packets with private source or destination addresses
  >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  >    should not be forwarded across such links. 
  >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I stand corrected. I was very much arguing the status quo and not the
status expected by the RFC (and by myself when I wrote the passage you
quote ;-). 

  > I agree however that the answers from the other routers will give you in mo
  > st
  > of the cases enough information to figure out what route the packets take.

Yep.

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  • Re: Please help: ptp links addresses From owner-lir-wg@localhost Thu Jul 11 23:01:33 1996
    • From: Janos Zsako