what's that smell?

Wed Oct 9 01:34:59 UTC 2002

--On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 2:56 PM -0600 Barb Dijker <barb at netrack.net> 
wrote:
...
> ISPs bill customers for traffic on the edge.  If you filter one hop from
> the edge (interior of the edge router - fewer interfaces that way too) or
> at your border, then you can have your cake (money from the customer) and
> eat it too (filter RFC1918).  Of course you would then be charging
> customers for packets you don't pass.  They'll never know, and I never
> met a bean counter that cared about such details anyway... if bean
> counters are making routing policies.

I count both packets and beans, and as a customer (though not Barb's), I 
think such a charge is entirely within reason -- because it is under my 
control.  Have some more cake.