-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious@gmail.com> wrote:

Essentially, if you don't control all the parts of the network that your packet uses, you're not able to directly set optimization parameters, so what you're doing to get symmetry is throwing lots of hints at the network and hoping some will stick, and the parts of the network that happen to cooperate with you may not be the best ones that are otherwise available.

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." :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHjBWeq1pz9mNUZTMRAkW4AKCiIBfZtNamFrfrUY3ymOIhQcLr+ACeIVXP 7x/pIYWX1tqdicfaeFSOQzM= =LQxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/