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> That's why you do not control networks with signals on the network itself. Other than, you know, the entire Internet (BGP) and pretty much every corporate WA

> That's why you do not control networks with signals on the network itself. Other than, you know, the entire Internet (BGP) and pretty much every corporate WAN (OSPF, EIGRP, RIP) and LAN (spanning tree, ARP). Having an out-of-band control plane is very much the exception. Now OOB emergency access, on the other hand... edit okay, SS7 is out-of-band, but parent was talking about IP networks.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
I don’t know about that. Even the ancient FTP protocol has a separate control channel/port.
icehawk 5y ago
And even with those things being in-band, we now have authentication for BGP and the IGPs to try and constrain the ability to send control signals. SS5/CCITT5 would probably have played out a lot differently had they hand the ability to do that sort of thing like we do now.