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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Asymetrical Routing
> My question is: How bad is this? Is it terminaly bad or simply not > so great? Asymmetric routing by itself has virtually no impact on performance. It does present a measurement headache, though. This is discussed in a paper of mine available from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/routing.SIGCOMM.ps.Z a revised version of which will be appearing in IEEE/ACM TON later this year. > Out of order TCP packets are bad, but can simply be reassembled. Asymmetry doesn't lead to out-of-order delivery, so this isn't a problem. Routes that *change* often, on the other hand, can indeed lead to performance problems. Vern
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