Michael Thomas wrote:
> Frankly, I don't think that there is any evidence
> that the net would be substantially harmed if RO
> wasn't widely implemented and/or enabled. Indeed,
> I think there's good reason to believe that many/most
> nodes will not enable RO even if their kernel
> implements it. In some cases, it's likely to be
> a nice and useful optimization, but I really
> don't see it as a "if we don't do this the net
> will fall apart". As such, SHOULD seems like it
> strikes the right balance.
>
> Mike
>
I could not agree more with this point. RO would be a required
functionality a number of years back, when the net was in it's
infancy and bandwidth availability in the backbone networks
(even transoceanic links) were severely limited.
We are in the age of OC-192/768s over DWDM. The delay that an IP
packet incurs in the core is almost negligible.
If bottleneck in the HA is the primary driver for RO, then it is
possible to solve the problem with load balancing with DHAAD.
My two cents.
Regards,
Kuntal
