Anycast 101
Petri Helenius
pete at he.iki.fi
Mon Dec 20 17:39:24 UTC 2004
Paul Vixie wrote:
>
>of course it will work. it just won't be particularly fast. specifically,
>it won't allow tcp to discover the actual end-to-end bandwidth*delay product,
>and therefore tcp won't set its window size advantageously, and some or all
>of the links along the path won't run at capacity. packet reordering is not
>fatal to the technology, but it is fatal to the business. "not everything
>that can be done, should be done."
>
>
Since when bad engineering is bad to the big business? The world is full
of examples to the contrary.
Pete
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