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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:33 AM > To: Magnus Boden > Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes > Subject: Re: How many protocols... > > > > Thus spake "Magnus Boden" <[email protected]> > > I wouldn't call it an isp if they only allowed tcp, udp and icmp. > > It should be all ip protocols. > > > > There can be a maximum of 256 of them. The isp shouldn't care what > > the ipheader->protocol field is set to. > > There is at least one ISP here in the US that filters > protocol 50 (IPsec ESP). > Does that mean they're really not an ISP? > > S > > They can still call themselves whatever they want, but I wouldn't consider them an ISP, as they're not provider a very key part of my "Internet experience". I'd feel the same way if they filtered google. Regards, Matt -- Matt Levine @Home: [email protected] @Work: [email protected] ICQ : 17080004 AIM : exile GPG : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
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