How many protocols...

Magnus Boden mb at ozaba.cx
Wed Jun 19 05:33:02 UTC 2002


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:
> 
> 
> 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 at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at 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 at 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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> > 
> > 
> 



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