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Re: BCP38 dismissal

  • From: Jo Rhett
  • Date: Thu Sep 11 03:36:46 2008
On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
On that you'll have to speak for yourself. We have it on every customer port ;-)

Now that is interesting. Can you share a bit about you rimplementation hardships, costs, customer complaints, etc?


One customer complaint. Found the customer was looping traffic between two uplinks and helped them fix the problem ;-)

Implementation cost: time/labor to implement automatic management of ACLs on the customer ports.

Not all that much cost, since we had already developed infrastructure to do the same thing for customer configurations. Maybe 12 hours of my time coding and testing.

Honestly, I expected a lot more problems than we've had. Especially given the fallout I'd seen on the networks trying to do it with Cisco. But the Force10 gear didn't even notice the effect, and it's been ~2 years since I've even thought much about it.

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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness