On 22 January 2009 c. 16:37:52 Steve Laurie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if someone could tell me why there's a need to write
> a rule to block addresses that come under the private address space if
> these addresses aren't routable over the Internet?
- Home Internet provider give you public IP but their internal network is
still one of described in RFC 1918;
- OpenBSD machine is bridging some traffic;
- etc.
And when you set up such rule you can control flow of matched packets
(tag them, label them, etc); otherwise you cannot.
--
WBR,
Pereresus ne Vlezaet Buggy
