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Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway? Are you implying your ISP itself is going to do this? Because the Internet at-la
by sedawkgrep 9mo ago
Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway?
Are you implying your ISP itself is going to do this? Because the Internet at-large doesn't have routes for your internal address space.
- throw0101a 9mo ago> Who exactly is going to route/send an RFC1918 address to an Internet gateway? The GP is talking about 1:1 'basic' NAT: * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2663#section-4.1.1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2663#section-4.1.1
- Dagger2 9mo agoThe same problem applies to masquerading. Routers are happy to route packets they receive, and NAT (in whatever form) isn't the tool you use to drop those packets.