Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious () gmail com> 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

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