[120610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ip-precedence for management traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Tue Dec 29 06:03:57 2009
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
In-Reply-To: <1405A4AA-D83C-4D7B-8352-F399F7EA8EA4@arbor.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:03:17 -0800
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>=20
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Luca Tosolini wrote:
>=20
>> this leaves out only ipp 7 for management traffic, on the premise =
that routing and management should not share the same queue and =
resources.....
>=20
> Management-plane traffic should be sent/received via your DCN/OOB =
network, so that it's not competing with customer traffic nor subject to =
network partitions or other disruptive events. It should not be =
co-mingled with traffic on the production network.
Agreed, it's very important to have a management network that is =
reachable while you are under ddos or some kind of mess you or someone =
else've created. Often having something like an ADSL like connection =
will save trips to colo and will give you nice abilities to work on =
stuff when combined with serial management tools.
Mehmet=
