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Re: Selfish routing

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Thu Apr 24 02:36:05 2003 
Thus spake "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>
> How do network operators maintain "fairness" in their networks in
> the face of selfish behaivor?  Although this article concerns some
> of the "smart routing" products, we see the same thing with other
> applications (and even malicious applications like worms).
>
> Every 5 years or so we discuss the need for something like a "penalty
> box" for ill behaived traffic.  But in the end, that's too hard.  Its
> easier to add capacity than to solve the fairness problem.

Are you asking about strategies to fix the uneven resource utilization
inherently caused by shortest-path routing, or are you asking about how to
deal with abusive traffic?  I don't see a connection between the two.

S

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