[NCLUG] Egress Filtering

[mike cullerton]

on 8/14/01 5:10 PM, Michael Dwyer at mdwyer at sixthdimension.com wrote:

>> I believe that everyone is responsible for the devices they directly
manage/own,
>> and no one else. A customer might choose to outsource part or all of that
obligation
>> to a contractor, which might be their ISP, for a fee or bundled into another
service.
>> There are a number of ISP's which manage selected customer networks.
> 
> This is what has me torn about this.  I would normally agree with you,
> simply because if I let @Home filter some traffic, what is to stop them
> from, say, filtering other ports?  Say... port 80?  Uh.. bad
> example...nevermind.

it just totally bums me out when an isp filters at the port level. they're
in the business of selling bandwidth for chris'sake.

ooh! unlimited internet access for $20! except you can't really use it.

:(

 -- mike cullerton