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Re: "Selfish Routing"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Feb 15 01:14:49 2003

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:14:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302141523120.4815-100000@minot.kruckenberg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:

> Abstractions and analogies aside, is this really a problem,
> and is it really worth solving? Sounds like a lot of
> additional complexity for the supposed benefits.

When I read the article I didnt recognize anything in it that correlated
with my understanding as to how BGP et all works. Am I the only one who
after reading it thought the author needs to cut back on whatever drugs he
is taking?

I have never seen any router "send test packets and time them" nor take
congestion into account when doing routing decisions?

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se




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