On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Bruce Lowekamp wrote: > > I'd be interested in any studies that support the concern that > failure on the return path of a symmetrically routed message are a > significant issue. Generally, forward-routing is more likely to fail > because the link may have been unused for up to the periodic > maintenance interval plus the timeout period. So the forward-routed > request may be the first message in some time to traverse the link. > The response, on the other hand, will arrive within whatever the > latency of the request/response time is, which is almost certainly > orders of magnitude shorter. >
I hate responding to my own message, but just to clarify, when I used the word "forward" in that paragraph, I meant to refer to the steps of forwarding the request around the overlay to the destination peerID, and to distinguish that direction from the return direction. I did not mean to refer to forward-only routing. Bruce _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
