[232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing meltdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Fri Aug 11 18:35:44 1995
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:28:14 -0700
To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
From: Hans-Werner Braun <hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu>
Cc: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff), nanog@merit.edu
On the MBONE. When the load becomes too high, the VIRC (van inflow
routing control) kicks in.
At 14:41 8/11/95 PDT, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
>Jon,
>
>> > Making
>> > routing decisions based on load is somewhere between silly and scary. If
>>
>> No, it is not, in fact it happens all the time.
>
>Would you please point to places in the Internet that do load-sensitive
>routing ?
>
>Yakov.
>
>
