Thus spake "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>
When I read the article I didnt recognize anything in it that correlated with my understanding as to how BGP et all works. Am I the only one who after reading it thought the author needs to cut back on whatever drugs he is taking?
I have never seen any router "send test packets and time them" nor take congestion into account when doing routing decisions?
There are indeed commercial and in-house products which use probes and traffic measurement to influence the BGP decision process. Watch tarpit logs for sites that ping every subnet on a regular schedule. I hope this doesn't catch on or all the pings may drown out real traffic... As a general description of Internet routing, I agree it's laughable -- but the technology does exist. S