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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: > 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." I wish people wouldn't base their bloody netflow accounting systems on perfectly symmetric traffic flows. Argh. Its 2008 I still see the country academic backbone implement symmetric netflow based accounting, and I get pissed off every time a department gets charged thousands of dollars from a very much local or internet-2 connected ISP, because of asymmetric flows. FFS. Adrian
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