Loose Source Routing

Tue Mar 6 22:54:03 UTC 2001

> 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