[HamWAN PSDR] Request for Software - IP Protocol Filtering Measurement

[Bart Kus]

Hi,

During some cell site work last night, I seem to have experienced 
Comcast dropping packets from point A to point B simply based on the 
fact that their IP protocol was GRE (IP protocol 47).  I also found some 
posts on the Internet that claim Comcast wishes to charge more money to 
transport GRE packets.  I'm not sure if this is true, or if I made a 
mistake somehow in my traffic handling.  Therefore...

Would someone be willing to create software instruments to measure this 
claim in general?  I'd like to see a transmitter and a receiver piece of 
software that can run on Linux to generate and record a sweep of IP 
packets carrying all possible protocol numbers (0-255). The protocol 
payloads themselves don't need to be well-formatted, just the protocol 
number in the IP header needs to be set.  Your software will be 
considered successful if it measures 100% of all protocols as available 
over an unfiltered (eg: LAN) link.

The results of such a measurement would be useful in gauging the ISP 
quality of any given carrier.  It seems we're moving closer to Selective 
Protocol Service Providers (SPSP) and away from true Internet Service 
Providers (ISP) if this GRE finding turns out to be right.

--Bart