[76677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Dec 20 12:41:39 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:39:24 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041220164440.2E1E913E12@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
>
>of course it will work. it just won't be particularly fast. specifically,
>it won't allow tcp to discover the actual end-to-end bandwidth*delay product,
>and therefore tcp won't set its window size advantageously, and some or all
>of the links along the path won't run at capacity. packet reordering is not
>fatal to the technology, but it is fatal to the business. "not everything
>that can be done, should be done."
>
>
Since when bad engineering is bad to the big business? The world is full
of examples to the contrary.
Pete
