[35350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Loose Source Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Wed Mar 7 11:53:46 2001
Message-Id: <200103071649.f27GnEs14291@ptavv.es.net>
To: bwalters@inet-direct.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2001 21:19:26 CST."
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 08:49:14 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From: "Walters" <bwalters@inet-direct.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:19:26 -0600
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
> Couldn't this be restricted to originate from certain
> hosts with certain identities? (Have the peer noc
> authenticate and then just log usage?)
This is really not too useful. How you route to our NOC is not as
important as how you route to our customers. That means LS packets
need to have source addresses from fairly random places.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
