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Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 04:35:57 +0000 (UTC)
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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
Current thread:
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP?, (continued)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 07)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Bryan Holloway (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Jeff Tantsura (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Tom Beecher (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Tom Beecher (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? William Herrin (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Jay R. Ashworth (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Tom Beecher (May 10)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 09)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Tom Beecher (May 10)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 10)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Blake Dunlap (May 10)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Brandon Zhi (May 11)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 11)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Bryan Holloway (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? William Herrin (May 08)
- Re: Best Linux (or BSD) hosted BGP? Mark Tinka (May 08)