[39074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Modem [really more about PPPoE]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Tue Jun 26 12:30:15 2001
Message-Id: <200106261625.f5QGPRt21001@smtp.gwi.net>
To: Steve Schaefer <schaefer@simone.dashbit.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Chris White <cwhite@happyhappy.net>
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:21:11 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:25:27 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Steve Schaefer wrote:
> The constraint is that outbound packets need to go to the right ISP. That
> is, the packets need to go through the carrier network according to the
> business relationship, not according to the destination IP address.
>
> Some method of identifying the ISP associated with each outbound packet is
> necessary. Policy routing, tunnels and PVC's are a few methods. VLAN
> tagging works, too.
What details of which technology? Cable? Etherloop? Wireless?
What is this DOCSIS thing I keep hearing about?
regards,
fletcher
