[166185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Reimer)
Fri Oct 11 14:26:45 2013
From: Fred Reimer <freimer@freimer.org>
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>, "joelja@bogus.com"
<joelja@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:26:11 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20131011.191357.239591912.wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Most if not all IGPs can be configured to work without multicast. Now if
you're talking IPv6 you may have some issues=8A
On 10/11/13 2:13 PM, "William Waites" <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:41:46 -0700, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> said:
>
> > you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is)
> > providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else.
>
>Yes, that's another part of the conversation, encouraging the use of
>an IGP, which has been a source of trouble for them because of broken
>wireless bridges from a very commonly used vendor that randomly eat
>multicast packets, so it's not as straightforward as it should be.
>
> > evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that
> > could be handled better.
>
>Ok, fair enough. My first experience with PBR was as a summer intern in
>the mid-1990s who inherited management of a large ATM network that had
>a big VPN-esque thing built entirely that way and with no
>documentation. It certainly felt evil at the time. ;)
>
>-w
>
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