Re: Anycast 101

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Paul Vixie wrote:

> of course it will work.  it just won't be particularly fast.  specifically,
> it won't allow tcp to discover the actual end-to-end bandwidth*delay product,
> and therefore tcp won't set its window size advantageously, and some or all
> of the links along the path won't run at capacity.  packet reordering is not
> fatal to the technology, but it is fatal to the business.  "not everything
> that can be done, should be done."
>  
Since when bad engineering is bad to the big business? The world is full 
of examples to the contrary.

Pete