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Sooner or later someone will pay for the complexity of the kludges you use

Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net comments:

I loved listening to OTV/FabricPath/LISP Packet Pushers podcast. Ron Fuller and Russ White did a great job explaining the role of OTV, FabricPath and LISP in a stretched (inter-DC) subnet deployment scenario and how the three pieces fit together … but I couldn’t stop wondering whether there is a better method to solve the underlying business need than throwing three new pretty complex technologies and associated equipment (or VDC contexts or line cards) into the mix.

Ivan once again reminds us that just because you *can* do a thing doesn’t mean you *should* do a thing. Someone always pays in the end.

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