[52670] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: what's that smell?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Tue Oct 8 11:56:41 2002
From: "Jason Lixfeld" <jlixfeld@andromedas.com>
To: "'Petri Helenius'" <pete@he.iki.fi>,
"'Joe Abley'" <jabley@isc.org>, "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:52:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00fe01c26eda$892626e0$8c2a40c1@PHE>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > I am sure thats part of it. Also, it might be a CPU issue as well.
> >
> Unicast RPF is affordable CPU-wise even in the most mediocre
> boxes people tend to have.
In more cases than not, especially now adays with lots of networks
peering all over gods creation, RPF can have some pretty detrimental
effects if your routing is somewhat asymmetrical.
