[External] Re: The Reg does 240/4

Tue Feb 13 21:19:57 UTC 2024

On 2/13/24 21:47, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM Bryan Holloway <bryan at shout.net> wrote:
>> https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Routing+Protocol+Overview
>>
>> Ping across? Sure. Ok. But I wouldn't rely on it for anything critical.
> 
> Well that's certainly interesting.
> You will not see me sticking up for MikroTik's documentation, ever. I
> don't think the table reflects the reality of ROS 7, there's even a
> note that "Routed traffic does not work to odd address" in one
> version. I know that to be false, because, well, I do this in
> production, and I suspect I would have noticed if the niche
> functionality of "routing" suddenly stopped working.
> 
> Maybe this document refers to the literal configuration of a /31. But
> I always configure them as point to points, as I mentioned before. But
> there again, in the documentation, that ability is totally missing...
> great.

I would 100% concur that Mikrotik documentation can be spotty.

That said, what you choose to do on your network is of course totally up 
to you.

Personally, I would not use MikroTik's /31 implementation in mine.