On 08 Mar 2003 00:48:47 -0600, Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg@starken.com> wrote in message <1047106127.2050.56.camel@runabout.noc.starken.com>: > Just something of interest I ran into the other day with a client. We > moved them to a new building, and setup their new wireless connection, > and for the life of me couldn't ping their provider, but everyone > else. It seems their provider is using 172 and 10.x addresses for > their wireless towers, and gateways to the internet. So if I > traceroute to the client I get public -> public -> private -> private > -> private -> public. It didn't work going out from the client at > first because we drop all reserved addresses on the public NIC of the > firewall, so we couldn't ping the provider. I subsequently got in an > "discussion" with their CTO about RFC 1918 on how it's probably not > good to be using private IP's to route public traffic, at least IMHO. ..such discussions are better taken in public, so the hotshot can show off his alledged competence... ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
