[88175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Split flows across Domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Tue Jan 24 07:27:30 2006
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:56:57 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
Are there any ISPs that do, or desire, splitting traffic across
different ASes for prefixes learnt via an exterior gateway protocol
(say BGP)?
For example, an ISP can learn two different equal cost routes to a
foo.com server via two different autonomous domains. It can thus split
different flows (based on src-dest IP, src-dest Port, TOS, etc) across
these two paths.
Do operators currently do this?
Folks can send me replies offline in case this constitues a "trade secret"!
Thanks,
Glen
