In search of uplink vendor

Thu Jan 12 13:41:23 UTC 2012

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01:58AM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Paul Kaminsky wrote:
>>> 1. 1 Gbps link with complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol
>> One question:
>> 1. Not knowing anything about your business, is there a specific reason
>> that you want "a complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol"?  That can be
>> problematic with IPv4, and downright foolish with IPv6.

> 	perhaps we are walking around w/ incomplete notions of what
> 	constitutes a "complete block of UDP/ICMP protocol"...

My notion of the original statement was that the OP was looking for a 
provider that would block all UDP and ICMP, as in firewalls and packet 
filters.  I also made the possibly-incorrect assumption that if the OP 
has an ASN from which to announce prefixes, it would also be reasonable to 
expect that they already have at least one prefix to announce.

>From that angle, 'problematic' and 'downright foolish' is not such a far 
walk ;)

jms