[122253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Feb 10 11:50:58 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:50:36 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <E0682651-4DA5-4858-8549-8C96664C368E@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Agree to disagree is right. The film is called "The Internet Revealed:
> _A_film_about_IXPs_". You find it strange that the film would actually
> focus on IXPs. I find it strange that you couldn't figure this out
> before clicking play.
If it would have said "The internet revealed - an advertisement for IXPs"
I might have been expecting the thing I got.
> However, I do believe you should know how the Internet works. And if
> you honestly believe packets in a single stream cannot travel over
> different paths, you clearly do not. And before you come back with BS
> about "normal operation" or such, realize your statement was far more
> "factually incorrect" than what the video said about private
> interconnects.
I'm saying they don't normally do so, as one might believe when looking at
the movie. Any core router ECMP algorithm that sprays L4 sessions like
that will cause re-ordering which is bad, mkay.
But I'll shut up after this, I'm obviously not jaded enough like you other
people to just swallow this as "advertisement". I expected a correct
factual way of describing how the Internet works including IXPs, not an
IXP advertisement. My expectations were obviously wrong from the response
I'm seeing.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
