On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.hol...@sungard.com>wrote:
> Depends on the provider. Many just do not want to manage hundreds of > customer ACL's on access routers. Especially when it would compete with a > managed service (firewall, IDP, DDOS) of some sort. Some still are under > the impression that ACL's are software based and their giant $100k+ edge > box > would crash if they configured them for any reason. > > Conversely, some don't want to be paid for bare colocation (at bare colocation prices) and have to then support 1000+ rules (yes, 1000+) with 10-20 change requests per day. YMMV/slippery slope/service scope/etc.