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Re: "Selfish Routing"
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:39:48 -0600
Thus spake "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike () swm pp se>
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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