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> Those are reasons against. > > We in the technical community need to develop or modify our tools to > make those tasks easier. My point, exactly. > Hire a lazy but smart admin! :) > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:45:22PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > > > In more cases than not, especially now adays with lots > of networks > > > > peering all over gods creation, RPF can have some > pretty detrimental > > > > effects if your routing is somewhat asymmetrical. > > > > > > actually RPF is extremely effective especially where its highly > > > asymmetrical, eg at the edge. theres virtually no reason > not to RPF > > > dialup/isdn/cable/dsl/etc customers for example. > > > > Sure, but to RPF so many customer facing edge ports in > comparison to the > > far fewer number of egress ports makes the implementation procedure > > quite extensive. The more configuration, the more room for > errors or > > "oops, forgot to configure that there", not to mention change > > management. > > >
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