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Ring had Source Routing, must have been very macho.</font></font><br>
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On 8/5/2010 4:10 PM, John Day wrote:
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type="cite">Source routing is a male thing - the packets don't
want to stop and ask for directions.
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;-) Sorry, couldn't resist.
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At 0:40 +0200 2010/08/06, Matthias Bärwolff wrote:
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Hi everyone out there. I am wondering (mainly just out of
curiosity)
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about the implementation and usage record of source routing in
the early
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Internet. The IPv4 spec (starting with IEN 80) came to include
it
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eventually, but my impression is that while people *thought* it
would be
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important, in reality no one cared too much and it wasn't used
much.
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My question: have people actually been using it for purposes
other than
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spoofing attacks? What about routing debugging? And, load
balancing?
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Plus, how widespread did it become in gateways/routers before
security
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concerns rendered it a complete no-go?
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Thanks for your recounts and takes.
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Richard Bennett
Senior Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC</pre>
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