Loose Source Routing

Tue Mar 6 20:41:56 UTC 2001

  It makes sense to require peers to allow LSTR through their peer's
  networks.

  Any badness that LSTR would allow seems to pale in comparison to A> 
  Peer's need to check policy compliance and operational troubleshooting,
  and B> other nefarious things that can be done and not solved.

  -a

Thus spake David McGaugh (david_mcgaugh at eli.net)
 on or about Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:49:47AM -0800:
> 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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