[29169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DVB/IP from teleglobe (and/or others)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Jun 14 00:49:22 2000
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:42:41 +0200
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
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At 17:03 13/06/00 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
Try http://www.ipplanet.com. Don't know if they can do what you want - but
worth a try.
-Hank
>i have a client that is looking to use DVB/IP to blast ip packets into various
>geographic areas.
>
>DVB/IP is basically piggy backing ip packets on Digital Video Broadcast
>satelite signals, allowing the end-users to collect the packets with a
>rather inexpensive receiving dish.
>
>the end-user will need some normal method of sending their packets out,
>typically via dial-up into a local ISP.
>
>this is nothing new, direct PC/ hughes have been doing it for a while,
>although
>i don't know if they are/were using DVB/IP, but a similar set up.
>
>teleglobe markets a service where they will advertise some subnets on your
>behalf, take the incoming packets and spew them into the areas you are looking
>to go.
>
>when investigating this, i initially thought it was great.
>
>i started discussing issues i had, like how it would be a good idea to
>have the
>ingress of the DVB/IP network-wise close to the client's internet egress.
>
>this would reduce some of the problems of asymetric routing.
>
>i also pointed out, that it would be a good idea to have some kinda system
>in front of the DVB/IP so that you could do some level of firewalling against
>DoS attacks and such.
>
>i then found out that teleglobe makes no provision for the customer to
>filter the packets before they hit the DVB/IP uplink.
>
>the best they offered was to allow an out-of-band (ie. almost paperbound
>procedure) configuration of an access list on their router.
>
>are their any other DVB/IP providers who will allow my clients to install
>a firewall/filter box in front of the DVB/IP uplink?
>
>--
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