Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

[Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>]

On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Luca Tosolini wrote:
>
> > this leaves out only ipp 7 for management traffic, on the premise that routing and management should not share the 
> > same queue and resources.....
>
> Management-plane traffic should be sent/received via your DCN/OOB network, so that it's not competing with customer 
> traffic nor subject to network partitions or other disruptive events.  It should not be co-mingled with traffic on 
> the production network.

Agreed, it's very important to have a management network that is reachable while you are under ddos or some kind of 
mess you or someone else've created. Often having something like an ADSL like connection will save trips to colo and 
will give you nice abilities to work on stuff when combined with serial management tools.

Mehmet