On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:54:43 +0000 Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > In one of your old patch, you have changed the default IP > addresses to the range of 192.18.0.0 citing RFC 5735. > commit 37afe381bde4277f0078116b8d4d7a315c8e39b3 > Author: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > Date: Wed Apr 10 10:41:31 2019 -0700 > examples/l3fwd: use reserved IP addresses > > however, in the RFC, I see the range as 198.18.x.x. Was this deliberate ? > Or, I am misreading? > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735 > 198.18.0.0/15 Network Interconnect > Device Benchmark Testing RFC > 2544<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2544> > > > Regards, > Hemant > Good catch, this is a typo in my patch. 198.18.0.0/15 - This block has been allocated for use in benchmark tests of network interconnect devices. [RFC2544] explains that this range was assigned to minimize the chance of conflict in case a testing device were to be accidentally connected to part of the Internet. Packets with source addresses from this range are not meant to be forwarded across the Internet.
