On Saturday 08 March 2003 01:03 pm, Patrick Welche wrote:
> In all the recommendations for firewall rules, there seem to be a
> ream of block 192.186/16 127/8 etc rules to prevent such unrouteable
> addresses from coming in on your interface. If my interface is
> 12.34.56.78 netmask 0xffffff00, how could such packets be accepted by
> it anyway?

The block rules are for packets FROM RFC1918 addresses not TO such=20
addresses.