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> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 11:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: multihoming without BGP > > <snip> > > The way I think of this is that BGP describes reachability, and > clients need > to know about topology in order to select the right web server, and > these two > (reachability and topology) are necessarily unrelated to each other. > > I think that there is another important element or metric that is not > served by either - packet loss across the path. You know a server is > reachable - BGP tells you. If you know the topology, you know it is > "close". But looking at a typical day at MAE East, for example, when > you take into account the packets that end up being dropped, it may > *not* be the 'best' path. > > > Rodney Joffe > Chief Technology Officer > Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company > http://www.genuity.net >
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