Re: Traffic Engineering

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis () brookfield ans net>]

In message <199712162008.PAA15876 () brookfield ans net>, Curtis Villamizar writes
:
> The only real problem you can run into is if someone is boneheaded
> enough to misconfigure their routing to do per prefix load splitting
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^
                                             per packet
> across WAN links or worse yet across providers.  Again, such people
> don't deserve to stay in business (since *all* TCP traffic from their
network will suck), but they do exist.  The common newbie mistake is
> to configure per prefix load split among two default routes.  Westnet
> used to do this many years ago.  Some small network in Florida did
> this more recently.
>
> Curtis


Minor correction but big difference in meaning.  Per prefix is fine.
It is per packet load split that causes trouble.,

Curtis