[100531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis" (slashdot)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brim)
Thu Oct 25 17:42:30 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:36:11 -0400
From: Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>
To: "Jason Frisvold" <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <924f29280710251402h2d86f682ycf3bb95acbd6598a@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 25 Oct 2007 at 17:02 -0400, Jason Frisvold allegedly wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with these Anagran flow routers? Are they
> that much of a departure from traditional routing that it makes a big
> difference?
There's no difference in routing per se. Rather it's in-band
signaling of QoS parameters to provide feedback to queue management.
> I haven't done a lot of research into flow-based routing
> at this point, but it sounds like this would be similar to the MPLS
> approach, no?
There is no setup phase. Signaling is in-band and periodic. The
theory is that every once in a while a control packets is sent, with
the same src/dst as the regular data packets. Whatever paths the
packets take, the control packets will take the same paths.
