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.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Steve Wright stevewrightnz@gmail.com wrote:
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
What are you talking about? Who said anything about professionals, and why did you bring it up? 44net is for ham radio networks.
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
Why does anyone post questions to this list? To get help with the answers. If Bart was capable and had the time to write this software himself, I'm sure he would have.
your political goals.
I don't see how this has any relation to politics. Bart wants to identify ISPs that may not work well with 44net due to blocking tunneling protocols. GRE is just an example, but an ISP could easily block IPIP, too.
It would be really helpful to have some software that would tell you "You're ISP is blocking it" instead of just emailing the 44net list with "Why don't my tunnels route traffic?"
Tom KD7LXL
P.S. Why did you start a new thread for your message? The original subject was more descriptive.
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