[166213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Sun Oct 13 01:57:13 2013
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:55:54 -0600
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <52598B53.3030502@alvarezp.ods.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:48:03AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 10:27 AM, William Waites wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I wouldn't say "evil", I have found it really useful in some cases. You
> just need a different approach to the network design.
Yeah.
Just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
(Sorry, but a Lazarus Long quote seemed appropriate.)
