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Originally Posted by BadMoFo
on a slightly related note, vrf's are ****ing awesome man.
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Bull ****ing ****.
VRFs give mediocre engineers the belief that they can do things with their network that they should not actually be doing. They're all fine and dandy until something breaks and no-one can figure out what the **** is going on any more, because traffic is going in and out of one and then the other and back through, a policy map somewhere is ****ed and the whole network falls down in a screaming pile of canine faecal matter.
This is the physical representation of the average work of a "vrf's are ****ing awesome" engineer:
They're nice in theory, yes. But unless the people actually designing how they're set up are building the entire network from scratch and with their use in mind,
and are far more competant than most I've ever seen actually doing it, then you invariably wind up with a nightmare of a beast to operate.