22 Aug
1997
22 Aug
'97
4:07 p.m.
Peter Kline wrote:
but most of all:
- possibly without justification, end users think that Symmetric Routing is the "right thing" to do, so therefore Asymmetric Routing is the "wrong thing" to do
This is way too soft-spoken. Asymmetrical routing is a _necessary_ feature of modern routing architectures. It is _not_ possible to "decouple" interior routing between backbones and preserve symmetricity of traffic flows. (Note that things like injecting IGP metrics into MEDs do not scale). In other words, anyone who complains about asymmetricity of backbone routing simply does not have a clue. --vadim