[101636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Jan 14 21:11:01 2008
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:08:33 GMT
To: nonobvious@gmail.com
Cc: drew.weaver@thenap.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious@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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