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Re: BCP38 [Was: Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?]


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:33:10 -0500 (EST)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>

Can somebody explain to me why those who run eyeball networks are able
to block outbound packets when the customer hasn't paid their bill,
but can't seem to block packets that shouldn't be coming from that
cablemodem?

The purported argument is "our edge concentrators don't have that knob/
enough horsepower to do it manually and stay on the line card".

I'm not sure how accurate that argument is any more and (as I noted in
another reply just now[1]), I'm officially not buying it anymore.

Cheers,
-- jra
[1] http://www.bcp38.info/index.php/Information_for_equipment_manufacturers
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