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Sean: This is misleading at best... >From [email protected] Fri Oct 20 15:19:42 1995 >From: Sean Doran <[email protected]> >To: [email protected], [email protected] >Subject: Re: Asymmetric Routing >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:22:35 -0400 >Status: R > >| Analysis of some of our routes shows the potential for asymmetric >| routing...that is...the transmit path will be different than the return path >| for packets. > >Asymmetry has been a reality for quite some time now; in fact >it was happening during the NSFNET backbone service days, >since the information in the PRDB was often in a shambles. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not surprisingly, the PRDB was as good as the information which was submitted by customers of the NSFNET BNS, though there was a lot of checking done to try to proactively catch mistakes. As someone who was working with/supporting the NSFNET configuration process, I do not know of other customers claiming that "the PRDB was often in a shambles" via phone, email, or third-party reports. > Sean. Steve Richardson, Merit
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