From: Richard Adams (bkepkb@mail.dy.fi)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 22:25:57 EEST
On Monday 15 April 2002 17:55, Riley Williams wrote:
> Not if you use IC24 as your IP - they allocate 10.* addresses to your
> modem and the router at the other end, and their DHCP servers provide
> a routing line that routes ALL 10.* IP addresses across the modem link
> to the router you're dialled up to.
If that provider is using 10.*.*.* numbers across a network then AFAIK that
is not in accordance with RFC 1918 which states;
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
Now i have little idea where or what this thread started about, however if
one wants to use 10.0.0.1 for his private network then he/she has "every
right" to do so, even IF an ISP uses it to do some or other smart tricks with
period. I wonder if an ISP could even be reprimanded for using an RFC 1918
address for financial gain, not that it is of concern to me, it is more a
question of "rules are rules"... After all what else are all RFC;s for period.
I have not read that RFC rule in full, however reading what i have says to me
they are "private addresses period".
Anyway my commentry stops here, this is getting way off topic.
-- Regards Richard terhi.victor@logonet.com http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to cswv.jmrihbhpu@uni-lueneburg.de More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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