[105741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 source routing options and IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Mon Jun 30 13:36:07 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:35:12 +0100
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: deepak@ai.net
In-Reply-To: <4862AE02.6030201@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Deepak Jain wrote:
>> Quite a few times it has been mentioned to me that some peering
>> agreements require support for the IPv4 source routing options. I was
>> wondering whether this is still the case for some ISPs, or it is not
>> the case anymore.
>
> Before we decommissioned our last open peering fabric, source-routing
> was important to make sure your peer wasn't pointing default (or
> similar) to you. With the advent of private (and far more limited)
> bilateral peering as a preference to fabric based peering (at least
> among the ones who set peering policies globally) this has become
> less of an issue.
>
> RFC 5095 aside.
>
>
Can someone give an example of how to use source routing to check a
peers routing policy?
Thanks,
Sam
