[126756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Junos Asymmetric Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri May 28 11:30:51 2010
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 23:30:19 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinjraFhmlmUOva-EOuryB46mknYGmdbHQj2wIFf@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> We replaced our OpenBSD routers with these SRXes since they were supposed to
> be multifunction devices (gateways and routers at the same time) which was
> the selling point. So we expected them to do asymmetric routing and were
> told they could, easily, but apparently they are not acting normally and
> also the configuration is perfect according to JTAC.
It sounds like a mis-communication on everyones' parts.
I've come across plenty of systems-oriented people who believe the behaviour
of network edge devices is what you've said - because various hosts (eg
Linux) treat sockets, routing, ethernet active/standby, etc a specific way
and this is not how "traditional" routing/edge devices behave. :)
Adrian
