-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/10/2013 19:41, joel jaeggli a écrit : > > On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:27 AM, William Waites <wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> I'm having a discussion with a small network in a part of the world >> where bandwidth is scarce and multiple DSL lines are often used for >> upstream links. The topic is policy-based routing, which is being >> described as "load balancing" where end-user traffic is assigned to a >> line according to source address. >> >> In my opinion the main problems with this are: >> >> - It's brittle, when a line fails, traffic doesn't re-route > > it's brittle > >> - None of the usual debugging tools work properly >> - Adding a new user is complicated because it has to be done in (at >> least) two places >> > > you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is) providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else.
I like that phrase. ;-) mh > > >> But I'm having a distinct lack of success locating rants and diatribes >> or even well-reasoned articles supporting this opinion. >> >> Am I out to lunch? > > evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that could be handled better. If it's being used as an alternative to VRF, it isn't. > >> >> -w >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJYPfUACgkQZNZ/rrgsqad+uQCgmQlT3kz8F6QrsYZe8SJmlrvJ k4MAn2CwQIOJF8vm1yXTsJh0vZR/cOVi =L+tx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
