[122244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Balashov)
Wed Feb 10 10:33:05 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:32:33 -0500
From: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1002101534470.31777@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/10/2010 09:46 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> But one factual error for instance, a TCP session (a picture being
> transfrred) doesn't take multiple paths, that's just wrong to say so. So
> showing a picture being chopped up in packets and sent over different
> paths, well that just doesn't happen in normal operation.
But it introduces the audience to the idea that the packets *could* be
routed over multiple paths in principle, even if it would constitute
evidence of abnormal operation to have this happen within a single session.
I think that's the intended take-away, from a pedagogical perspective.
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