[118769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ip options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Wed Oct 28 15:21:10 2009
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <1256756748.2228.9.camel@nld06907>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:20:21 +0700
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Luca Tosolini wrote:
> Considering the security hazard that they imply, I am therefore
> thinking
> to drop them.
You should certainly consider the impact on traceroute and possibly
QoS (i.e., RSVP, if it's relevant) in your environment.
Some vendors/platforms also have the option to ignore, rather than drop.
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