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Re: what's that smell?

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Tue Oct 08 14:55:32 2002 
Those are reasons against.

We in the technical community need to develop or modify our tools to
make those tasks easier.

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.
>