15 Aug
2010
15 Aug
'10
2:05 p.m.
What's the current consensus on exempting private network space from source address validation? Is it recommended? Discouraged?
(One argument in favor of exceptions is that it makes PMTUD work if transfer networks use private address space.)
and this is a good thing? rfc1918 packets are not supposed to reach the public internet. once you start accommodating their doing so, the downward slope gets pretty steep and does not end in a nice place. randy