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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "Selfish Routing"
Thus spake "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[email protected]> > When I read the article I didnt recognize anything in it that correlated > with my understanding as to how BGP et all works. Am I the only > one who after reading it thought the author needs to cut back on > whatever drugs he is taking? > > I have never seen any router "send test packets and time them" nor take > congestion into account when doing routing decisions? There are indeed commercial and in-house products which use probes and traffic measurement to influence the BGP decision process. Watch tarpit logs for sites that ping every subnet on a regular schedule. I hope this doesn't catch on or all the pings may drown out real traffic... As a general description of Internet routing, I agree it's laughable -- but the technology does exist. S
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