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Re: Upstream BGP community support
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:56:11 -0600
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 05:19:32AM -0500, Randy Bush wrote:
i try to use as few tricks, knobs, and clever things as possible and still get my job done. i try to be extremely conscious of, and minimal, when what i am doing effects or is visible to my neighbors and/or the global net. i try to complicate the internals of my network as little as possible, after all, complexity == opex and i value my time, it is a non-renewable resource. i prefer to be seen as an old and lazy minimalist, not a clever person. clever was a pejorative where/when i was brought up.
Translation: <randybush> You damn kids! Get off my lawn! But seriously now, the reason we have these squishy things taking up space between our ears in the first place is so we can come up with new ideas and better ways to solve our problems. Obviously you can take it too far, I'm sure we've all seen examples of absurdly over-complicated designs which existed only for the edification of someone's ego, but I have never seen a intelligent and well thought out BGP community system do anything other than make everyone's life easier. I don't know who these people are who you claim are busy breaking things with communities, but I've never seen them. Being clever is a good thing when it helps you find new ways to do more with less, and those who can't innovate in this industry are dooming themselves to obsolescence. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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- Re: Upstream BGP community support Andy B. (Nov 02)
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