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

Mon Jan 31 13:27:50 UTC 2005

Daniel Roesen wrote:

> You would NOT see the same effect with packets of e.g. the same TCP
> session, so this (multipath forwarding) is usually no problem (as for
> TCP and UDP applications there is no reordering happening). So your
> analysis results (traceroute) are misleading for most real-life
> applications. I agree that it's irritating and I personally favor
> using aggregated SONET/Ethernet devices (IEEE 801.3ad) to bundle
> parallel lines if possible.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 

Good point Daniel.

Perhaps the researchers should be using Layer Four traceroute.

John