On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:56:55PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, todd glassey wrote: > > > > > Hey there I am writing a paper for slamming ICANN a little more - how many > > protocols are you folks actually routing today? 10, 20, and what are they? > > Is there a standard list of protocols that all carriers support? > > I'm all for slamming ICANN, so maybe you could elaborate on your approach > a little more? > > I'm not sure where you're going with this...and I don't think you're > asking the question you intend to ask. By "protocols" do you mean to > include services such as DNS, SMTP, etc? > > Because, to answer your question directly, the list of protocols that all > carries support includes IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP. Some might do IPv6, but > don't count on it. So how do you get to 10 or 20?
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. Regards Magnus
