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Kerry Hoath staggered into view and mumbled:
>
>You need the RFC of assigned numbers.
>the following addresses are considered non-routable under ipv4
>and should not be forwarded by a router that connects to the internet that
>is these packets should never appear on the internet.
>10.0.0.0/8 (Class A)
>172.16.0.0/16 to 172.255.0.0/16
>192.168.0.0/24 to 192.168.255.0/24
>The network 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved for loopback use with 127.0.0.1
>beeing the localhost.
>
>There is no reason why speakup would not run on an ipv6 enabled kernel;
>I have personally not used ipv6 since at the moment much of it it is tunneled over ipv4 networks and vendors
>are still adding support for it and the standards are stabilizing.
>
>Regards, Kerry.

Thanks.  It looks like RFC 1918 is the place to start.  Have a _great_
day!

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