RE: multihoming without BGP

[Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () genuity net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul A Vixie [SMTP:paul () vix com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 11:35 AM
> To:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: multihoming without BGP 
>
> <snip>
>
> The way I think of this is that BGP describes reachability, and
> clients need
> to know about topology in order to select the right web server, and
> these two
> (reachability and topology) are necessarily unrelated to each other.
>
> I think that there is another important element or metric that is not
> served by either - packet loss across the path. You know a server is
> reachable - BGP tells you. If you know the topology, you know it is
> "close". But looking at a typical day at MAE East, for example, when
> you take into account the packets that end up being dropped, it may
> *not* be the 'best' path. 
>
>
> Rodney Joffe
> Chief Technology Officer
> Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
> http://www.genuity.net