[57923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selfish routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sun Apr 27 16:56:28 2003
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Mike Lloyd <drmike@routescience.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3EAB0E93.1020808@routescience.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > If this is the last mile which is the problem, it will *always* be a problem
> > no matter if one talks about primary or secondary path.
>
> Except when the last mile has an alternate (eg, a multihomed corporate
> site).
Nope, then you either will get the congestion inside the corporate network (
which you should not ) or the second path actually is the best path.
Alex