[168765] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 [Was: Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Feb 4 14:35:26 2014
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:33:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <15487.1391539666@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
> Can somebody explain to me why those who run eyeball networks are able
> to block outbound packets when the customer hasn't paid their bill,
> but can't seem to block packets that shouldn't be coming from that
> cablemodem?
The purported argument is "our edge concentrators don't have that knob/
enough horsepower to do it manually and stay on the line card".
I'm not sure how accurate that argument is any more and (as I noted in
another reply just now[1]), I'm officially not buying it anymore.
Cheers,
-- jra
[1] http://www.bcp38.info/index.php/Information_for_equipment_manufacturers
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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