[48675] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Jun 12 05:15:07 2002
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:03:29 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, 'Stephen Sprunk' <ssprunk@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <001901c21199$6b0d7df0$bd00a8c0@PORTAM00SE>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I dont provide multicast, am I not an ISP by your definition? I think so..
Steve
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matt Levine wrote:
>
> > -----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
> >
> >
> 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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