[77658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rapidly-variable routing on the time scale of seconds to minutes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Mon Jan 31 08:28:23 2005
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:27:50 -0500
From: John Fraizer <nanog@enterzone.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050131093610.GA13242@srv01.cluenet.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Daniel Roesen wrote:
> You would NOT see the same effect with packets of e.g. the same TCP
> session, so this (multipath forwarding) is usually no problem (as for
> TCP and UDP applications there is no reordering happening). So your
> analysis results (traceroute) are misleading for most real-life
> applications. I agree that it's irritating and I personally favor
> using aggregated SONET/Ethernet devices (IEEE 801.3ad) to bundle
> parallel lines if possible.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
Good point Daniel.
Perhaps the researchers should be using Layer Four traceroute.
John
