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Re: Traffic Engineering (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Thu Sep 18 20:52:58 1997

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 20:42:17 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, ekgermann@cctec.com, osborne@terra.net,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ytraamjgwq.fsf@cesium.clock.org>; from Sean M. Doran on Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 08:17:41PM -0400

On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 08:17:41PM -0400, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> 
> Your approach also is not a neat solution for two further
> reasons.  Firstly, it requires maintaining connection
> state for all connections on a central repository, and
> secondly, it requires that your network be stable at the
> point when a connection needs to migrate.

The other alternative to this solution does not require the actual
service servers (FTP, HTTP, etc) to share IP addresses.

Alec

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