Please help: ptp links addresses

On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Alain Golan wrote:

> Why not use "private" address space, like network 10.0.0.0
>  You'll have plenty of subnets for internal links !

Because the address of the router in a traceroute then might be private
address space one. I sort of like the idea that you know where in the
world you are when you do a traceroute.

If the interface has a hidden IP# that you can send packets to, but it
still will present itself as (for instance) the ethernet interface, you
just give the ethernet interface a "normal" IP# and all looks normal and
the router only takes up one IP# (not counting RFC1918 address space). 
This way you can still ping the interface on 10.0.0.1 .

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