[57811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selfish routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu Apr 24 02:34:43 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:23:32 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
> How do network operators maintain "fairness" in their networks in
> the face of selfish behaivor? Although this article concerns some
> of the "smart routing" products, we see the same thing with other
> applications (and even malicious applications like worms).
>
> Every 5 years or so we discuss the need for something like a "penalty
> box" for ill behaived traffic. But in the end, that's too hard. Its
> easier to add capacity than to solve the fairness problem.
Are you asking about strategies to fix the uneven resource utilization
inherently caused by shortest-path routing, or are you asking about how to
deal with abusive traffic? I don't see a connection between the two.
S
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