On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, R.P. Aditya wrote:
One said, sorry, can't do it on our router for "technical reasons" (think very large national provider).
Yes, I was told this by one upstream as well.
Another said, since we have lots and lots of customers (implying that there is no "normal ICMP flows" level), and we're carrying it over our network to you, your router might as well do the work of discarding the packets (think very savvy colocation provider).
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