Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate
Paul Ferguson
fergdawg at netzero.net
Tue Jan 15 02:08:33 UTC 2008
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- -- "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Essentially, if you don't control all the parts of the network that
>your packet uses, you're not able to directly set optimization
>parameters, so what you're doing to get symmetry is throwing lots of
>hints at the network and hoping some will stick, and the parts of the
>network that happen to cooperate with you may not be the best ones
>that are otherwise available.
>
I wish I could remember who to attribute this quote (maybe Geoff
Huston?), but paraphrasing:
"Asymmetric end-to-end traffic paths in The Internet is a fact of
life. Get over it."
:-)
- - ferg
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