[4008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Wed Sep 4 02:32:40 1996
To: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
cc: curtis@ans.net, Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Sep 1996 16:32:43 EDT."
<xoid903xrtg.fsf@chops.icp.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 02:14:59 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <xoid903xrtg.fsf@chops.icp.net>, Sean Doran writes:
>
> I'd love to see LSRR (and SSRR) dead because it
> slows down single-path forwarding considerably,
> and complicates fast-path/slow-path systems in
> gross ways for what I believe is minimal added utility.
There are routers that handle {LS}SRR at near full speed. Stuffing it
on the broken path in is a bug. Fast-path/broken-path is just a bug.
Curtis
