[148337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: In search of uplink vendor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Jan 12 15:17:58 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:16:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120112170735.GB29157@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
> > >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"...
>
> for me, literally,this makes no sense whatsoever. ratcheting back
> on my literal filter (be liberal in what you accept) I beleive
> what he is asking for is a contigious block of IP addresses
> for use in his network. am also making the inference that he is
> only looking for IPv4 (no route to host by /32 prefix).
Well, I dunno; I concur with jms: I assumed he meant "where the provider
drops all incoming UDP and ICMP traffic addressed towards my IP space on
the floor".
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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