Policy-based routing is evil? Discuss.

Fri Oct 11 18:26:11 UTC 2013

Most if not all IGPs can be configured to work without multicast.  Now if
you're talking IPv6 you may have some issuesŠ

On 10/11/13 2:13 PM, "William Waites" <wwaites at tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:41:46 -0700, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> said:
>
>    > you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is)
>    > providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else.
>
>Yes, that's another part of the conversation, encouraging the use of
>an IGP, which has been a source of trouble for them because of broken
>wireless bridges from a very commonly used vendor that randomly eat
>multicast packets, so it's not as straightforward as it should be.
>
>    > evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that
>    > could be handled better.
>
>Ok, fair enough. My first experience with PBR was as a summer intern in
>the mid-1990s who inherited management of a large ATM network that had
>a big VPN-esque thing built entirely that way and with no
>documentation. It certainly felt evil at the time. ;)
>
>-w
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