It makes sense to require peers to allow LSTR through their peer's networks. Any badness that LSTR would allow seems to pale in comparison to A> Peer's need to check policy compliance and operational troubleshooting, and B> other nefarious things that can be done and not solved. -a Thus spake David McGaugh (david_mcgaugh@eli.net) on or about Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:49:47AM -0800:
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) but the security implications far out way the benefits. Not only this I'm not comfortable with an outside source having control over routing on our network anyway. -Dave -- +------------------------------+ Dave McGaugh, CCNA Peering & IP Backbone Engineer Electric Lightwave, Inc. E-mail: dmcgaugh@eli.net Direct Dial: 360.816.3718 Fax: 360.816.3522 +------------------------------+ Content-Description: Card for David McGaugh