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Re: SIP on FTTH systems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Feb 7 02:12:00 2014

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:11:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <10023760.7484.1391754003002.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> If I am a commercial customer of an eyeball ISP like Road Runner: *I am
> entitled to expect that that ISP is technically capable of protecting
> me from possible attack traffic from that other customer*, who's outside
> my administrative span of control.  If they can send me traffic directly
> across a local access subnet, that requires a much larger hammer than if
> such traffic must cross the edge concentrator first, the configuration
> I assert is a better choice.
>
> Does that help?

Violent agreement. Customers should not talk L2 directly to each other 
using local switching, but they should be able to send IP packets to each 
other.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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