"Stephen" == Stephen Kowalchuk <skowalchuk@diamonex.com> writes:
Stephen> Public IP address allocation from ARIN is a totally Stephen> different matter. If people need assign addresses to things, they're going to do it. If certain bureaucracies prevent them from doing it the correct way, they'll do it the incorrect way, which is what we're discussing here. Stephen> My point is that filtering RFC 1918 Stephen> addresses at your network's borders is the right thing to Stephen> do for a number of reasons. Which is good in theory, but sometimes is not possible. Up untill very recently a router did not exist that could actually do this when a significant amount of traffic is being pushed through it. Cheers, -w -- Will Waites \________ ww@shadowfax.styx.org\____________________________ Idiosyntactix Ministry of Research and Development\