[179756] in North American Network Operators' Group
link avoidance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 6 18:56:31 2015
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Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 07:56:25 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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a fellow researcher wants
> to make the case that in some scenarios it is very important for a
> network operator to be able to specify that traffic should *not*
> traverse a certain switch/link/group of switches/group of links
> (that's true right?). Could you give some examples? Perhaps point
> me to relevant references?
if so, why? security? congestion? other? but is it common? and, if
so, how do you do it?
randy
