[6501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nanog list uncharacteristically quiet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Dec 14 16:05:41 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:00:31 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: ccaputo@alt.net, nanog@merit.edu
>Here's something to chew on. As an end-node site who has recently become
>triply-homed I've been wondering whether it would be useful if routers had
>a way of making a route selection based on output queue levels.
Not. That will cause reordering of packets, and so trigger false
TCP retransmits.
>Ie., let's say I have 2 paths to a destination of equal as-path distance
>through neighbor A and neighbor B. Based on recent discussion it sounds
>like IOS will send the packet to the neighbor with the lowest IP address.
Not. This is a default tie-breaking rule in cisco's BGP implementation,
and doesn't have anything to do with packet forwarding.
--vadim
