[166200] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Fri Oct 11 18:54:58 2013
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:54:24 -0700
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I'm having a discussion with a small network in a part of the world
where bandwidth is scarce and multiple DSL lines are often used for
upstream links. The topic is policy-based routing, which is being
described as "load balancing" where end-user traffic is assigned to a
line according to source address.
In my opinion the main problems with this are:
- It's brittle, when a line fails, traffic doesn't re-route
- None of the usual debugging tools work properly
- Adding a new user is complicated because it has to be done in (at
least) two places
But I'm having a distinct lack of success locating rants and diatribes
or even well-reasoned articles supporting this opinion.
Am I out to lunch?
-w
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