[6502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nanog list uncharacteristically quiet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Leber)
Sat Dec 14 17:11:56 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:03:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
cc: ccaputo@alt.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612142100.NAA00175@quest.pluris.com>
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> >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.
It could be stream based (address and port), and use a LRU cache with a
planned capacity of 5 minutes, to decide on which interface to use. Sure,
it is more complicated, but anything you add increases complexity.
Has anybody collected stream duration data? What does the distribution
look like? 98% of streams last how long? (I bet less than 5 minutes)
I think something like this was brought up at the Ann Arbor NANOG.
Mike.
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