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Understanding Martian Addresses
Martian addresses are host or network addresses about which all routing information is ignored. When received by the
routing device, these routes are ignored. They commonly are sent by improperly configured systems on the network and
have destination addresses that are obviously invalid.
In IPv6, the loopback address and the multicast resolve and discard routes are the default martian addresses.
In Junos OS Release 10.4R5 and later, the reserved IPv6 multicast address space (ff00::/8 and ff02::/16) is added to the list
of martian addresses.
In Junos OS Release 9.6 and later, you can configure Class E addresses on interfaces. Class E addresses are treated like
any other unicast address for the purpose of forwarding. To allow Class E addresses to be configured on interfaces, you
must remove the Class E prefix from the list of martian addresses. To remove the Class E prefix from the list of martian
addresses include the martians 240/4 orlonger allow statement at the [edit routing-options] hierarchy
level.
To view the default and configured martian routes, run the show route martianscommand.
IPv4 Martian Addresses
user@host> show route martians table inet.
inet.0:
0.0.0.0/0 exact -- allowed
0.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
127.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
192.0.0.0/24 orlonger -- disallowed
240.0.0.0/4 orlonger -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/4 exact -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/24 exact -- disallowed
inet.1:
0.0.0.0/0 exact -- allowed
0.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
127.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
192.0.0.0/24 orlonger -- disallowed
240.0.0.0/4 orlonger -- disallowed
inet.2:
0.0.0.0/0 exact -- allowed
0.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
127.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
192.0.0.0/24 orlonger -- disallowed
240.0.0.0/4 orlonger -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/4 exact -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/24 exact -- disallowed
inet.3:
0.0.0.0/0 exact -- allowed
0.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
127.0.0.0/8 orlonger -- disallowed
192.0.0.0/24 orlonger -- disallowed
240.0.0.0/4 orlonger -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/4 exact -- disallowed
224.0.0.0/24 exact -- disallowed
IPv6 Martian Addresses
user@host> show route martians table inet6
inet6.0:
::1/128 exact -- disallowed
ff00::/8 exact -- disallowed
ff02::/16 exact -- disallowed
inet6.1:
::1/128 exact -- disallowed
inet6.2:
::1/128 exact -- disallowed
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ff00::/8 exact -- disallowed
ff02::/16 exact -- disallowed
inet6.3:
::1/128 exact -- disallowed
ff00::/8 exact -- disallowed
ff02::/16 exact -- disallowed
Published: 2014-01-13