Policy Routing Using Linux®

Chapter 6. Complex Network Examples

With your newly acquired Policy Routing Black Belt you feel you can take on the world. So you decide you want to try some of the outer limits of Policy Routing structures. You start from the consideration of the Triad: Address, Route, and Rule. The definitions of the basic elements of Policy Routing are broad statements of use. You wonder what hidden assumptions and applications are covered within those definitions.

You start by considering how services define addressing and how to manipulate those services from the origin. You look at the service structure of an individual host as it relates to the overall provision of services within the network, then to how those network services are interoperative under ...