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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:52:44 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filtering of IPv6 over IPv4?
Message-ID:  <20000120095244.M62327@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000120152411T.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
References:  <20000119212045D.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> <20000119173531.I62327@florence.pavilion.net> <20000120152411T.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:24:11PM +0900, Yoshinobu Inoue wrote:
> > > But I am receiving several reports that some people failed to
> > > establish IPv6 over IPv4 connection via their ISP, and after
> > > several checking, it is found out that their ISP seems to be
> > > filtering those kind of packets.
> > 
> > It just goes to show that all ISPs are not the same :)
> 
> Yes, but I don't think they are intentionally filtering it.
> They would be just filtering all unknown type of packets for
> them.
> 
> So I think, the possibility of the problem need to be
> announced to broader place, and need to be recognized by as
> much of ISPs as possible.
> 

Yes!  But ISP don't _need_ to filter unknown traffic.  If they filter
by address then it's up to the user to decide what traffic they want
to send.

Joe
-- 
Josef Karthauser	FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how
Technical Manager	deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org)
Pavilion Internet plc.  [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk]


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