North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Split flows across Domains
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Robert E.Seastrom wrote: > > > Glen Kent <[email protected]> writes: > > > For example, an ISP can learn two different equal cost routes to a > > foo.com server via two different autonomous domains. It can thus split > > different flows (based on src-dest IP, src-dest Port, TOS, etc) across > > these two paths. > > > > Do operators currently do this? > > > > Folks can send me replies offline in case this constitues a "trade secret"! > > Works great with a flow-based router (or layer-three-switch-pronounced- > 'crippled-router'). The downside, of course, is that you now have a > flow-based router in your network, which has been shown to Not Work > Well under other specified conditions (worm outbreaks come immediately > to mind). I could be mistaken, but this is also a feature in mbgp, effectively loadsharing across two external paths. I presume the paths would have to be completely equal all the way down to the router-id and (probably) age-of-route ...
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