Rapidly-variable routing on the time scale of seconds to minutes?

John Fraizer nanog at enterzone.net
Tue Feb 1 03:23:49 UTC 2005


James wrote:
> 
> 
> AFAIK, multiple routers showing up in a single-hop in traceroute response is
> a sign of packet-by-packet load balancing, not flow based.
> 
> I could be wrong, though this was my past observation.
> 
> P.S.: What router-interacting applications are you using?
> 
> -J
> 

I would venture to guess that in 99% of the cases, it's not multiple 
routers showing up in a single hop but, rather multiple interfaces on 
the same router showing up.

John



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