On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:46:12AM +0200, DI Peter Burgstaller wrote: > I had the same problem when we switched from one ISP ot the other I was > running > both for a couple of months. > > Turned out that, as Jeremy Lunn suggested, that my new ISP wouldn't allow > IPs from a different Net be routed through his net, which is of course very > sensible and right. However, in my case it was the only way to get my setup > working so after long discussions with the admins they would allow only the > one IP address of my multi-homed machine in their net which solved the > problem. > > I'm aware of the implications it had then but it was only a temporal matter > in my case.
Great point. Upstream ISP's SHOULD be filtering out any IP's that are not their own as part of their egress filters. Definitely this person should check into that. -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
