On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:27:18PM -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:
> 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 
> addresses.

I still don't understand. How could my interface accept a packet from such
an address given that it doesn't match its ip/netmask? (BTW I think my 
question did mean FROM and not TO didn't it?)

Cheers,

Patrick