[48877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many protocols...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Boden)
Wed Jun 19 02:23:44 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:33:02 +0200
From: Magnus Boden <mb@ozaba.cx>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206121002420.1265-100000@staff.opaltelecom.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello,
multicasting has nothing to do with ipheader->protocol as far as I know.
So my definition doesn't consider multicasting.
//Magnus
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:03:29AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
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> 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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