[3440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Burgan)
Fri Jul 12 09:13:05 1996
From: Jeffrey Burgan <jburgan@BayNetworks.com>
To: Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>
Cc: "Bradley J. Passwaters" <bjp@eng.umd.edu>, avg@ncube.com (Vadim Antonov),
jerry@gi.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:01:24 PDT."
<199607120501.WAA10858@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:59:05 -0400
Vern,
> (ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/routing.SIGCOMM.ps.Z). I really wanted to
> come up with some reason why asymmetric routing has serious implications
> for TCP performance, but wasn't able to. I guess this is a good thing,
Maybe in a perfect world, but given that all ISPs are not created equal, it
is usually the case that the two paths don't have the same latency and packet
loss characteristics.
Jeff
