Re: Strange static route

2011-09-25 Thread Tom Storey
I found I had to do this many years ago on some Cisco routers to get them to load balance (per packet) across two links. Adding 0.0.0.0/0 routes across both links just resulted in traffic routing across one link. Broke it into two /1's per link and it worked perfectly. On 24 September 2011

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-25 Thread Joel Maslak
On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:37 AM, Tom Storey t...@snnap.net wrote: I found I had to do this many years ago on some Cisco routers to get them to load balance (per packet) across two links. Adding 0.0.0.0/0 routes across both links just resulted in traffic routing across one link. Broke it into two

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-24 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM, jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to filter in bound default?  or use a single static default if you where worried about that? Yes, the aesthetics of using a /1 route for that purpose are very poor. Don't implement design

Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Glen Kent
Hi, I have seen a few operators adding static routes like: 0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and 128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop. Why would anyone want to add such static routes? What does 0.0.0.0/1 mean. Note that the netmask is 1 and not 0. Thanks, Glen

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Joel Maslak
Protection against learning a bad default route through whatever routing protocol they are learning, since these two routes would be more specific than any typical default route. They probably got burned learning a default route. On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Glen Kent glen.k...@gmail.com

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread jim deleskie
Wouldn't it make more sense to filter in bound default? or use a single static default if you where worried about that? -jim On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Joel Maslak jmas...@antelope.net wrote: Protection against learning a bad default route through whatever routing protocol they are

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Jon Lewis
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Glen Kent wrote: Hi, I have seen a few operators adding static routes like: 0.0.0.0/1 some next-hop and 128.0.0.0/1 some next-hop. It means half the IPv4 internet goes one way. Half goes the other way.

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
Well considering that native multicast isn't enabled end to end Internet wide, and class E address space isn't used, it's more like half your IPv4 Internet goes one way, and ~38% goes the other way... :-b Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks

Re: Strange static route

2011-09-23 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:57 PM, jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to filter in bound default?  or use a single static default if you where worried about that? there's lots of smarter things you COULD do :) this, it seems to me, is a great thing for the