[128930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should routers send redirects by default?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Aug 20 17:14:22 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008201938060.8562@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:14:14 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jack Bates wrote:
>
>> Why should the ietf dictate a default on this?
>
> Because that's what the IETF does, sets a SHOULD on "best common practice"
> after discussion in the community.
>
>> Requiring implementation I could understand, but setting the default?
>> Should the ietf also specify requirement of allowing configuration change of
>> a default?
>
> I'd say by definition it's meaningless of talking about a default that can't
> be changed.
>
> As I stated in the 6man discussion, I prefer routers to by default not send
> redirects. We do that in our configuration template.
as always, thanks! :) I am hoping we all don't have to continue to
hack templates, if the option is sane to begin with and is documented
in the code/config/docs by the vendor(s).
-Chris
