,--[ On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:04:41AM -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:
| In article <86bq1l72pg.fsf@chateau.d.lf>,
| wahjava@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla ???? ?????) wrote:

[snip]

| > I'm a n00b in routing, esp. never configured any EGRP protcol
| > implementation, so I wanted to know how is MSN being able to send a
| > packet from an RFC1918 address to VSNL's network. I expect packets
| > destined to RFC1918 address to be dropped at site-level (or
| > organization-level) routers, but this is border-level. And following is
|
| Correct, you can't send packets TO RFC 1918 addresses. But traceroute
| is showing packets FROM those addresses.
|
| > the traceroute to the same from another Indian ISP (Airtel), which
| > relies on Sprint to reach MSN.
|
| Either Airtel or Sprint has a filter that drops packets with RFC 1918
| source addresses.

So this is what one should expect from a top-level internet host, right ?

Thanks
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