⚙️ Satire… mostly.
Don’t tell [redacted], but I still love static routing.
There, I said it.
I know — dynamic routing protocols like BGP are “smarter.” They can make pathing decisions, detect failures, and scale with the size of your environment.
But you know what static routing has never done?
Randomly decide to advertise a route it shouldn’t.
Or drop one it should’ve kept.
Or take down an entire site because of a misconfigured prefix list.
Static routes don’t get cute.
They don’t talk back.
They just… work.
I still remember when a resident networking genius at Sidepath (one of many) first started coaching me on BGP during our colo migrations. He’d talk about things like “autonomous systems,” “route reflectors,” and “transit peering.
Meanwhile, I was just trying to make sure packets got from Dallas to Phoenix without deciding to detour through Irvine.
[Redacted] would say things like,
“Once you understand BGP, you’ll never go back.”
And he’s right — I do appreciate BGP now. But I’ve also seen how fast a dynamic environment can spiral when one route map gets misapplied.
See, static routing isn’t fancy — it’s predictable.
And in a world of constant change, predictability is underrated.
Static routes are the vinyl records of networking:
• No automation.
• No self-healing.
• Just pure, analog control.
Sure, you’ve got to touch every router by hand.
But you also sleep better knowing exactly what you configured — and exactly where your packets are going.
So yeah… dynamic routing is impressive.
But sometimes, simple is beautiful.
Just don’t tell [Redacted]. 😉

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