On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:00 AM, 44net-request@hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:
During some cell site work last night, I seem to have experienced Comcast dropping packets from point A to point B simply based on the fact that their IP protocol was GRE (IP protocol 47). I also found some posts on the Internet that claim Comcast wishes to charge more money to transport GRE packets. I'm not sure if this is true, or if I made a mistake somehow in my traffic handling. Therefore...
If you really WERE working in a professional role on such equipment, and you ACTUALLY DID notice GRE packets missing, I would hazard a guess that you were perfectly capable of scripting up nc, nmap etc, with some bash or python to do as you ask, instead of trolling this networking group with your political goals.
On topic though, I do recall some recent amendments to law (actually rules of a corporation, not real law) where it was specifically forbidden that any ISP rate-limit any service whatsoever, and then charge to un-limit it, so likely the govt is ahead of you on this one. Perhaps an email to the company concerned with a polite request for the same information, and an implied threat to write some network discovery tool might net you dividends you seek, or at least a straight answer - rare as they are.