[rescue] Re: RFC-1918's on a PUBLIC network? why!!

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 08:12:13PM -0700, Jason Ackley wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > having to allocate thousands of /30s for WAN links.  It sucks because a
> > reverse traceroute always gets dropped at that next-to-last hop.  What's
> 
>  That is a bad decision on their part. They can justify a /30 for WAN
>  links to ARIN/other, as long as the overall subnetting makes sense..

I dunno, in my experience it is quite usual to use RFC1918 for point
to point links in such cases, e.g. when getting a T1 from one company
they recommended using 10.1.1.1 or somesuch for the two "internal"
serial interfaces (i.e. ISP-facing side on my router and
customer-facing side on theirs).

--Patrick