[olug] bad practices at home

[Brian Roberson]

I would have to side with Vincent on this. It is bad mojo when you cant
pull out a ip subnet calculator and do proper sub/supernetting. Being as
wide spread as @home, and owning an entire class A subnet, what are they
thinking? However, it is not in any RFC that you must use public ip
space from edge-to-edge. I think the reason they are doing this is that
they are getting ready to cut people over to dhcp/Nat to reduce the
inbound traffic abuse. Also, as a further implementation issue, they
_have_ to run either an IGP or use static routing. Use of a dynamic
routing protocol with private ip's used internally. ( IGP = Interior
gateway protocol ) and then on the edge routers, they redistribute IGP
<-> EGP... I am rather curious as to what they use though... 




-----Original Message-----
From: David Walker [mailto:linux_user at grax.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:05 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: RE: [olug] bad practices at home


I think it's a good idea personally.  There's no reason you need to send
packets to their routers, only through them.  This frees up IPs for
those that really need it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent [mailto:vraffensberger at home.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:58 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] bad practices at home


Has anyone else done a traceroute to or from an @home system lately? I'm
seeing private/reserved 10. addresses!?!

10.88.40.53 (10.88.40.53)  9.320 ms  9.285 ms  24.627 ms

...that's pretty lame...


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