14 Jan
2008
14 Jan
'08
9:47 p.m.
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