[80087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Sat Apr 23 18:29:33 2005
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:29:04 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* haesu@towardex.com (James) [Sat 23 Apr 2005, 23:10 CEST]:
> With proliferation of high speed circuits and continuing trend of lower
> cost of bandwidth, PPLB is becoming more obsolete for many people that
> implemented it in the past. What is becoming more common is non-PPLB
> based setup, such as flow or destination based load balancing, et al
> to group high capacity circuits (i.e. when gig-e's aren't enough and
> 10GbE is too much of a capex for an immediate upgrade).
Exactly. Apparently it's little bother for router vendors to reuse the
algorithms they wrote to properly support 802.3ad (link aggregation; the
spec demands that `conversations' be kept on the same wire) for load
balancing over multiple IP paths.
Regards,
-- Niels.
