You rae using policy routing to redirect traffic. we are global carrier,
one thing we hate to do on our backbone is to put policy routing on
routers; always try to avoid it.
_ming
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, William Tarkington stated:
> Policy based routing does indeed have to do with network or host security.
> With a cisco I can route everything based on poicy to the firewall. That is
> to say if I have two servers on the same local router (2 ethernets) I can
> policy route them to the firewall instead of letting it cross the router
> uninhibited.
>
> At 10:19 AM 12/23/98 -0500, Ming Lu wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, William Tarkington stated:
> >
> >> Now I've watched this descussion bounce around on various lists and I just
> >> thought I would throw in my two cents worth.
> >>
> >> 1) One firewall is a single point of falure so lets assume we have two.
> >
> >than your routing structure will be complicated and costy.
> >
> >> 2) Now that we have two we can't do a default routae
> >
> > Not true, one is active and another one tsand by.
> >
> >> 3) Enter GateD
> >> 4) OSPF (or some other modern routing protocal)
> >
> >GateD supports all of open standard routing protocols, OSPF is one of
> >them.
> >
> >> 5) Problem solved.
> >> Now with translation outbound and inbound everyone can talk to each other.
> >>
> >> If you seriously want to get down to business you can of course use Cisco's
> >> and do policy based routing.
> >
> >Policy routing gatta nothing to do with network or host security.
> >
> >> Hurm I hope that answered a question perhaps I am just ranting.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Will
> >>
> >>
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> >"Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your
> > servant cursing you ---- for you know in your heart that many times you
> > yourself have cursed others."
> >
> >
> >
> William Tarkington
> Daimler Chrysler
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>
>
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