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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Bill Stewart" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Essentially, if you don't control all the parts of the network that >your packet uses, you're not able to directly set optimization >parameters, so what you're doing to get symmetry is throwing lots of >hints at the network and hoping some will stick, and the parts of the >network that happen to cooperate with you may not be the best ones >that are otherwise available. > I wish I could remember who to attribute this quote (maybe Geoff Huston?), but paraphrasing: "Asymmetric end-to-end traffic paths in The Internet is a fact of life. Get over it." :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHjBWeq1pz9mNUZTMRAkW4AKCiIBfZtNamFrfrUY3ymOIhQcLr+ACeIVXP 7x/pIYWX1tqdicfaeFSOQzM= =LQxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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