sent to e2e hoping thread pursued on only one mailing list but wasn't sure which one would hate it more. fwiw. critical feedback/corrections/thoughts welcome k ----- Forwarded message from k claffy <kc@caida.org> ----- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:26:30 -0800 From: k claffy <kc@caida.org> Subject: bgp reflecting actual traffic flow (or not) To: end2end-interest@postel.org Cc: Rajesh Talpade <rrt@research.telcordia.com> 8 months may be my record for email latency impressive huh On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:27:50PM -0400, Rajesh Talpade wrote: > kc wrote: > would recommend against assumptions of either symmetric paths > or bgp reflecting actual traffic flow > unless you're writing science fiction always wondered about what new career i could launch into! :-) seriously, what's a good reference for your second point about bgp not reflecting actual traffic flow? preliminary tech report finally up, have not wanted to publish till we had more complete results but that might not be in community's best interest so here: http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2003/ASP/ (also linked from 'what's new' on caida.org) remark reckon it's not going to surprise any operators, and it's still only a piece of the interdomain alchemistry, but there we bgp k ----- End forwarded message -----