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Re: Loose Source Routing

  • From: David McGaugh
  • Date: Tue Mar 06 21:22:55 2001

Thanks for all the great input, minus the somewhat uncivil comments of
some!
-Dave

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > 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

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Dave McGaugh, CCNA
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Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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