North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks
Well, considering that Ron works for AOL, I would think he's all over "wierd applications" and "odd protocols" :) - Daniel Golding > > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Ron da Silva wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:04:00PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > > ...For a backbone filtering is another story entirely. Filtering > > > backbone equipment for it's protection is also a completely different > > > topic... > > > > Filtering on the backbone is exactly what I mean. Clueful backbone > > providers should know the ins and outs of their data... > > Wow, this is a bold statement... do you deal at all with asymetrically > routed customers? odd protocols? wierd applications? for any 'large' sized > provider knowledge of the traffic beyond "its ip" is going to be a very > difficult task. Even knowledge of address ranges crossing the network is a > tough task give some customers default all traffic via one provider OUT > and in through an alternate provider (assymetrical routing). > > Really, filtering anything but point incidents isn't a simple task, and at > times point incidents are a challenge :) >
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