[10024] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: multihoming without BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Wed Jun 11 15:04:59 1997
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@genuity.net>
To: "'Paul A Vixie'" <paul@vix.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:49:43 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:paul@vix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 11:35 AM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: multihoming without BGP
>
> <snip>
>
> The way I think of this is that BGP describes reachability, and
> clients need
> to know about topology in order to select the right web server, and
> these two
> (reachability and topology) are necessarily unrelated to each other.
>
> I think that there is another important element or metric that is not
> served by either - packet loss across the path. You know a server is
> reachable - BGP tells you. If you know the topology, you know it is
> "close". But looking at a typical day at MAE East, for example, when
> you take into account the packets that end up being dropped, it may
> *not* be the 'best' path.
>
>
> Rodney Joffe
> Chief Technology Officer
> Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
> http://www.genuity.net
>
