[Madlug] that's right -- "no security wanted"

[Leinweber, James]

> I have two machines hooked up over a cross-over cable
> for the example (1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2).  My choice of
> ip addressing isn't exactly canonical...

Hmmm.  It's not listed in RFC 3330 as a special use IP
range, it's not on Team Cymru's bogon list, and whois
says it's still IANA reserved.  So you are safe for now,
but by 2010 when the IPv4 space runs out, you might have
to move to an actual RFC1918 private address (10.0.0.0/8,
172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16).

10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 are good for people who think allocating
and entire class A range to a point to point link is amusing.
It's what xkcd would do :-)

Mostly I'm using 172.17 and 172.18 myself these days.  They
are less commonly in conflict with the '10 crowd on the one
hand and the 192.168 default on all the home broadband modems
and routers on the other.

-- Jim Leinweber
State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin - Madison
<jiml at slh.wisc.edu> 2810 Walton Commons West; phone +1 608 221 6281
PGP fp: 2E36 47BC DB03 57CE 86AD  19CC 41A1 9179   5C6B C8B9