From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 20 1:52:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D9914F58 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA70801; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:52:44 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:52:44 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Yoshinobu Inoue Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering of IPv6 over IPv4? Message-ID: <20000120095244.M62327@florence.pavilion.net> References: <20000119212045D.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> <20000119173531.I62327@florence.pavilion.net> <20000120152411T.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000120152411T.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message