On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

[ On Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 11:53:18 (-0400), Richard A Steenbergen wrote: ]

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Subject: Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

I'm sure we can all agree on at least the concept that sourcing packets from an address which cannot receive a reply is at least potentially useful, for example to avoid DoS against a critical piece of infrastructure. Would it make people feel better if there was a specific seperate non-routed address space reserved for "router generated messages which don't want replies"? Why?

Why not just use 127.0.0.1?!?!?!?!?

and thats different from rfc1918 because?