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From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 6:40 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
The implication being that while it might work, it would make administration of the system onerous and unpredictable, considering we are dealing with a ton of FreeBSD installations, and not just a single server.
Adjusting a single tunable is 'onerous'?
No, but it's brittle. A workaround, not a solution. Likely to break during future maintenance. "Unpredictable" as Mark put it.
Nothing a routing daemon does should involve the kernel BPF. The next sysadmin won't be expecting it.
That's such an important thought that it has a name. The Principle of Least Astonishment. "When doing things, try to pick the way among many that will least confuse the people who have to pick up the pieces when you get hit by a bus." Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274