[35303] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Loose Source Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Tue Mar 6 17:05:51 2001
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From: Mark Borchers <mborchers@splitrock.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:46:56 -0600
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One way to compromise on this without undue security risk
is to allow source-routing one hop into your network but no
further.
> What are people's feelings on loose source routing? The general
> sentiment around here is that it is a very evil thing. The
> reason I ask
> is that there is a certain network out there (who will remain
> nameless)
> who refuses to peer unless loose source routing is enabled. I can
> somewhat understand their reasoning (they can reroute traffic on OUR
> network as necessary) but the security implications far out way the
> benefits. Not only this I'm not comfortable with an outside source
> having control over routing on our network anyway.
> -Dave
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> Dave McGaugh, CCNA
> Peering & IP Backbone Engineer
> Electric Lightwave, Inc.
> E-mail: dmcgaugh@eli.net
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