[SunRescue] Help!

[Alistair MacDonald]

(Just for the sake of completeness)

Actually the router *shouldn't* just drop the packets since it is =
perfectly reasonable to have a routed network built on top of the private =
networking space(s). However, the *border* router *should* deal with the =
packets before passing anything on to the outside world. Normally this =
would be dropping them, but you can also do NAT on the router (depending =
upon the hardware)

Alistair

>>> josh at imagestream-is.com 04/19/01 08:31AM >>>
It's true that the first router should drop the packets, but that is not
what will generally happen.  A router is stupid, and most small routers
don't have full bgp feeds.  So when most non-core routers get a packet =
that
has a destination to one of the non-routable blocks ( 192.168.x.x
172.16-32.x.x 10.x.x.x ) they just send it to their default gateway.
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