On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
Here's something to chew on. As an end-node site who has recently become triply-homed I've been wondering whether it would be useful if routers had a way of making a route selection based on output queue levels.
Not. That will cause reordering of packets, and so trigger false TCP retransmits.
It could be stream based (address and port), and use a LRU cache with a planned capacity of 5 minutes, to decide on which interface to use. Sure, it is more complicated, but anything you add increases complexity. Has anybody collected stream duration data? What does the distribution look like? 98% of streams last how long? (I bet less than 5 minutes) I think something like this was brought up at the Ann Arbor NANOG. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+