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Re: Common operational misconceptions
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:02:29 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Wayne E Bouchard wrote:
Or more to the point, it is a misconception that traffic is symetrical (the path out and the path back are the same) whereas in the present network, symetrical paths are the exception rather than the rule, especially as your radius increases.
To add to that, I feel pretty sure in stating that many of the people on this list, at one point or another, have either had people tell them that asymmetric routing is "bad", or have had to explain why asymmetric routing across 'the Internet' is not "bad", even if it can make troubleshooting a 'network problem' somewhat more involved. The path from A to B is not necessarily the same as the path from B to A.
jms
Current thread:
- Re: Common operational misconceptions, (continued)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Anton Kapela (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chuck Anderson (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Kell (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Anton Kapela (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Rich Kulawiec (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chris Campbell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Kell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chris Campbell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Alexandre Grojsgold (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Wheeler (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Lee (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Wayne E Bouchard (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Justin M. Streiner (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Tony Tauber (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Wayne E Bouchard (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Masataka Ohta (Feb 15)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Nathan Eisenberg (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Steve Bertrand (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mark Andrews (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Masataka Ohta (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Charles Mills (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions John Kristoff (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Tony Tauber (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mark Andrews (Feb 15)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Nathan Eisenberg (Feb 15)