[48639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Mon Jun 10 15:12:46 2002
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:12:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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AD> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:21:59 -0400 (EDT)
AD> From: Andy Dills
AD> How can you forget the king of all protocols, RIP? :)
RIP isn't an IP protocol. :-)
AD> But seriously, I still don't understand the semantics. If
AD> you're "routing" those protocols, you're also routing SMTP,
AD> DNS, POP, IMAP, HTTP, HTTPS...wacky multiplayer game
AD> protocols...anything that runs on IP, basically.
They run on TCP or UDP, which represent _two_ IP protocols.
AD> So you're either routing IP, or you're routing
AD> `wc -l /etc/services` number of services plus possibly
AD> infinite more.
I interpretted the question to be, "who actively routes real-
world traffic from what protocols on /etc/services"?
Eddy
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