On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 02:42:19PM -0600, Joe Shaw wrote:
Most people use what's commonly refered to as Martian filters to filter out private address spacing. It allows those ISPs to use private address space internally and not have to worry about advertising them via external routing protocols and also keeps them from accepting bogus route announcements from other providers who haven't used the filters.
There's an important distinction to be made, Joe, betwen filtering _packets_ and filtering _announcements_. Martian filters usually filter packets. What you announce, and what you send, need not have anything to do with one another.
Do the "default-less" ISPs filter private addresses or do they let routing/forwarding do the work?
Default-less?
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