Re: Portmaster/Assigned IP pool (fwd)

Cristian Gafton (gafton@sorosis.ro)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 04:49:55 +0200 (EET)

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, MegaZone wrote:

> >How can I keep my Portmaster from redirecting the IP traffic for the
> >addresses in his pool, but not negotiated yet with a dialup user ? Doing
>
> As always, there is more to it. We have had requests for things like this
> from different users - but what different people want has been incompatible.
> So we're still looking at the best way to do a black hole route.

Why not have a Null interface, like about every other router have ? Add
the null interface, and the thory of operation for that interface could
be very simple: reply with ICMP unreachable requests for every packaets
that came in or simply drop it (if we don't want to be nice...)

Regards,
Cristian Gafton

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