[35319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Loose Source Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Mar 6 20:38:48 2001
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From: Randy Bush <rbush@bainbridge.verio.net>
To: "David McGaugh" <david_mcgaugh@eli.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:54:03 -0500
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> 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)
false. the reason is that our noc can debug your routing problem without
going through the problems of getting intelligent cooperation from your
noc.
randy
