[14268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Dec 16 20:44:32 1997
To: curtis@ans.net
cc: "James R Grinter" <jrg@watching.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:08:39 EST."
<199712162008.PAA15876@brookfield.ans.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 20:31:34 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@brookfield.ans.net>
In message <199712162008.PAA15876@brookfield.ans.net>, Curtis Villamizar writes
:
>
> The only real problem you can run into is if someone is boneheaded
> enough to misconfigure their routing to do per prefix load splitting
^^^^^^^^^^
per packet
> across WAN links or worse yet across providers. Again, such people
> don't deserve to stay in business (since *all* TCP traffic from their
network will suck), but they do exist. The common newbie mistake is
> to configure per prefix load split among two default routes. Westnet
> used to do this many years ago. Some small network in Florida did
> this more recently.
>
> Curtis
Minor correction but big difference in meaning. Per prefix is fine.
It is per packet load split that causes trouble.,
Curtis
