On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:03, Martin Mares wrote: > No, since this tends to interfere with the outside network using the > same private (RFC 1918) addresses. People generally don't expect network > equipment to collide with their perfectly legal addressing plan. > Aha! Thanks for clarifying this. So the problem domain is: "IP address conflict" detection and somehow this is seen as a resolution to that problem. So what happens when you put tow or three of Zdenek's boxes in one location? Back to square 1? > On the other hand, if the manufacturer gets a small block of public > addresses and uses it in all his devices (the same block everywhere) > for internal purposes only (no packet ever escapes), everything is > perfectly correct and no collisions can arise. Yes, I see. Except this wont be practical for IPV4 since those addresses are scarce. May make sense for V6 though (becomes like MAC addresses on NICS). cheers, jamal - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
