[48630] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Jun 10 12:55:32 2002
To: todd glassey <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:33:09 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:53:28 -0400
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:33:09 PDT, todd glassey <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net> said:
> Is there a standard list of protocols that all carriers support?
Hmm.. *all* carriers?
The IPv4 variants of TCP, UDP, and ICMP.
Even IPv6 and multicast coverage are spotty at best, and anything else better
have an IPv4 encapsulation if you want it to actually go end-to-end.
(Yes, I know BGP gets around - but that's not routed so much as relayed peer-to-peer).
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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