On 2008-03-07 03:58, Christian Vogt wrote: > Hi there - > >> Actually, BGP supports (a) when the packet is near the recipient, (b) >> when the packet is near the sender and (d) [ISP traffic engineering] >> when the packet is in between. Everybody gets to tweak the path. > > Certainly. I was focussing on the part near the recipient, though: > the selection of an edge network's ingress link. This part is where > BGP-based traffic engineering supports (a) and only (a).
I wonder if this is a problem that will still exist in future? In a world with maps distributed in the way we're discussing, single-ended ingress or egress selection seems to vanish as an issue; the issue is how to choose an egress/ingress pair that has desirable path chararacteristics. Brian -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
