23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
1:50 p.m.
Needs is a tough call. Plenty of networks block ICMP at the border and could very well be using 1918 addressing in between and you'd have no idea. -- David Temkin On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Dave Temkin wrote:
Except you're making assumptions as to how that router is used.
If it's being used for purely transit then your third paragraph doesn't apply at all. The traffic is not originating or terminating there, it is merely passing through.
When the router needs to send an ICMP packet back to the source it becomes an originator.
--lyndon