Selfish routing

Richard A Steenbergen ras at e-gerbil.net
Sat Apr 26 03:19:53 UTC 2003


On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:21:09PM -0400, alex at yuriev.com wrote:
> However, claims "we have a special technology that magically avoids
> problems in the networks that we do not control" is the egineering
> religion.

Magically, no. Random good luck just by having lots of paths to choose
from and a way to detect which one "works"... it's possible.

Theoretically there *IS* a use for optimized routing (yes, outbound only),
it's just that implementing it is a little more difficult than talking
about it. :P

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