Re: SIP on FTTH systems

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> If I am a commercial customer of an eyeball ISP like Road Runner: *I am
> entitled to expect that that ISP is technically capable of protecting
> me from possible attack traffic from that other customer*, who's outside
> my administrative span of control.  If they can send me traffic directly
> across a local access subnet, that requires a much larger hammer than if
> such traffic must cross the edge concentrator first, the configuration
> I assert is a better choice.
>
> Does that help?

Violent agreement. Customers should not talk L2 directly to each other 
using local switching, but they should be able to send IP packets to each 
other.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se