[98817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Sun Aug 19 10:56:35 2007
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:48:02 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708162253380.15618@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:55:59PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
[snip]
> We've been pitching the idea to bittorrent tracker authors to include a
> BGP feed and prioritize peers that are in the same ASN as the user
> himself, but they're having performance problems already so they're not so
> keen on adding complexity. If it could be solved better at the client
> level that might help, but the end user who pays flat rate has little
> incentive to help the ISP in this case.
Some of those maligned middleboxes deployed in last-mile networks don't
just throttle, but also use available topology data to optimize locality
per the ISPs policies.
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