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Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:47:34 +0900
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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."
I wish people wouldn't base their bloody netflow accounting systems on perfectly symmetric traffic flows. Argh. Its 2008 I still see the country academic backbone implement symmetric netflow based accounting, and I get pissed off every time a department gets charged thousands of dollars from a very much local or internet-2 connected ISP, because of asymmetric flows. FFS. Adrian
Current thread:
- Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Drew Weaver (Jan 14)
- RE: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Darden, Patrick S. (Jan 14)
- Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate William Herrin (Jan 14)
- RE: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Scott Morris (Jan 14)
- Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Bill Stewart (Jan 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Paul Ferguson (Jan 14)
- Re: Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate Adrian Chadd (Jan 14)