[Collisions] "controlled interruption" - 127/8 versus RFC1918 space

[Jeff Schmidt]

>>>What studies exist to confirm that (say) 127.0.53.53 won't attract
>>>network traffic from a host?
>>Sorry, don't understand the question -- unsure what 'attract network
>>traffic' means. Do you mean whether anyone has looked to see if hosts
>>will accept traffic off the wire at (say) 127.0.53.53?
>
>The other way round -- what hosts, when presented with a destination
>address of 127.0.53.53, might send traffic to the network, despite the
>requirements of RFC 1700?
>
>I would hope the answer is "none". But I have seen strange things in the
>world.

Heh.  Indeed.  We're lab testing this now and will have additional data in
our full report.  The short version is that most stacks seem to exhibit
one of three behaviors.

Jeff
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