[48668] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Levine)
Tue Jun 11 18:44:19 2002
From: "Matt Levine" <matt@deliver3.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "'Stephen Sprunk'" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:43:33 -0700
In-Reply-To: <01bc01c2115d$8a6ac900$9d876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:33 AM
> To: Magnus Boden
> Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: Re: How many protocols...
>
>
>
> 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
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>
They can still call themselves whatever they want, but I wouldn't
consider them an ISP, as they're not provider a very key part of my
"Internet experience". I'd feel the same way if they filtered google.
Regards,
Matt
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