[148330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: In search of uplink vendor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Jan 12 12:44:00 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:43:08 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1201120834530.13233@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:41:23AM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01:58AM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> >>On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Paul Kaminsky wrote:
> >>>1. 1 Gbps link with complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol
> >>One question:
> >>1. Not knowing anything about your business, is there a specific reason
> >>that you want "a complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol"? That can be
> >>problematic with IPv4, and downright foolish with IPv6.
>
> > perhaps we are walking around w/ incomplete notions of what
> > constitutes a "complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol"...
>
> My notion of the original statement was that the OP was looking for a
> provider that would block all UDP and ICMP, as in firewalls and packet
> filters. I also made the possibly-incorrect assumption that if the OP
> has an ASN from which to announce prefixes, it would also be reasonable to
> expect that they already have at least one prefix to announce.
>
> >From that angle, 'problematic' and 'downright foolish' is not such a far
> walk ;)
>
> jms
ndeed. and now i am curious.. what business plan/product/service
could make money w/o ICMP or UDP access.. ???
/bill
