Re: In search of uplink vendor

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:41:23AM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, bmanning () 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

        ndeed.  and now i am curious..  what business plan/product/service
        could make money w/o ICMP or UDP access.. ???

/bill