On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:27 AM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
I would assume my first email still applies. You need to override a default "don't route setting" for those private networks.
In all the work I've done with routers, I've never seen that setting. While 169.254 traffic should never get to a router, proper routers will route those RFC1918 addresses just fine.
James, It has been a long time since I worked at an ISP, but I am fairly confident the routers we bought dropped private IPs by default. Looking at wikipedia <http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network> I see "Public Internet Routers by default will not forward packets with RFC 1918 addresses. Unlike public Internet routers that need additional configuration to forward these packets, internal routers do not need any additional configuration to forward these packets." Thus it appears we could both be right depending on what the manufacturer (or opensuse engineer) thought was going to be the typical use for the router. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org