RE: Refusing Pings on Core Routers??? A new trend?

2006-10-19 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Q: As part of this, can you tell me why your router is prohibiting packets being sent to our interface? A: The reason you cannot hit your interface is it is blocked for security reasons. [...] What the heck is going on lately? Have we returned to the time where we've started trying

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed rate then we should deliver it. But as ISPs we don't sell this. As a network operator, I do sell various kinds of

RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]

2005-12-15 Thread Schliesser, Benson
To: Schliesser, Benson; Randy Bush Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet] Randy- I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that. I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer buys bit delivery at a fixed

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: If these don't work, people will complain. Just imagine for a second that cable providers started a service that meant that every channel not owned by, say, Disney, had a bad picture and sound. Would this be good for the cable companies ? Would their customers be

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Schliesser, Benson
-prioritizing the basic service. Cheers, -Benson -Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 09:36 To: Schliesser, Benson Cc: Per Heldal; NANOG Subject: Re: Two Tiered Internet Hello; My experience is that customers won't put a lot

RE: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

2005-11-11 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Thinking of services in terms of /etc/services will get you nowhere with this. It's like using the term best effort to a lawyer. It's all about context. -Benson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11

RE: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-07 Thread Schliesser, Benson
What is Internet? Let's channel Seth Breidbart briefly and call it the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship can be reached by an IP packet from. It should be clear that the nature and extent of this network depends very much on

RE: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-07 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Schliesser, Benson) writes: Would you care to speculate on which party receives the greater benefit: the sender of bytes, or the receiver of bytes? If both the sender and receiver are being billed for the traffic by their respective (different

RE: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-06 Thread Schliesser, Benson
Michael Dillon wrote: P.S. would the Internet be worse off if all traffic exchange was paid for and there was no settlement free interconnect at all? I.e. paid peering, paid full transit and paid partial transit on the menu? Would you care to speculate on which party receives the greater

RE: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread Schliesser, Benson
I would think in NANOG that one would know the simple fact that 'The Complete Internet' is complete and utter fiction, and does not exist. What does exist is a complex, dynamic, even stochastic set of relationships between autonomous networks, who can pick and choose their relationships