Quite a while ago I had a need for some network duct tape… Policy Based Routing while useful should only IMHO be used as a temporary fix. But as you know, temporary things soon become part of production and they end up staying around far too long. But I digress. I had a need for […]
Network Duct Tape Gone Wrong
As many of you may know, I’m in the middle of a huge network redesign, last week our new firewalls finally arrived and it became time for us to start migrating services onto the edge network I’ve been building for the past couple months. Unfortunately, the first thing they wanted to move was a group […]
Policy Based Routing
Policy based routing is the process of altering a packets path based on criteria other than the destination address, commonly referred to as ‘policy routing’. PBR (Policy Based Routing, not Pabst Blue Ribbon… ) can be used to affect the flow of traffic based on source address, the size of the packet, the protocol of […]
