[77679] 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 22:24:25 2005
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:23:49 -0500
From: John Fraizer <nanog@enterzone.net>
To: James <haesu@towardex.com>
Cc: Charles Shen <charles@cs.columbia.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050201030839.GA63085@scylla.towardex.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
James wrote:
>
>
> AFAIK, multiple routers showing up in a single-hop in traceroute response is
> a sign of packet-by-packet load balancing, not flow based.
>
> I could be wrong, though this was my past observation.
>
> P.S.: What router-interacting applications are you using?
>
> -J
>
I would venture to guess that in 99% of the cases, it's not multiple
routers showing up in a single hop but, rather multiple interfaces on
the same router showing up.
John
