[48658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Tue Jun 11 11:35:38 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Magnus Boden" <mb@ozaba.cx>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:33:26 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Magnus Boden" <mb@ozaba.cx>
> I wouldn't call it an isp if they only allowed tcp, udp and icmp.
> It should be all ip protocols.
>
> There can be a maximum of 256 of them. The isp shouldn't care what
> the ipheader->protocol field is set to.
There is at least one ISP here in the US that filters protocol 50 (IPsec ESP).
Does that mean they're really not an ISP?
S
