From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 11:31:56 GMT-3
At 8:54 PM -0500 11/16/03, Jonathan V Hays wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
>>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>>Behalf Of Howard C. Berkowitz
>>Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:40 PM
>>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>Subject: Re: Asymmetric Routing
>>
>>
>>Just to add a real-world taint to a CCIE lab discussion, a fairly
>>widely accepted rule of thumb is that if you are homed to two ISPs
>>that you prefer equally, about 30% of the responses to your outgoing
>>traffic via ISP 1 will return via ISP 2.
>
>Always this hangup with the real-world. What's with this reality stuff
>all the time, Howard?
>
>;-)
>
It's a crutch for people who can't handle RFC 2547bis VPNs.
(Comment of a Distinguished ISP Engineer at a 2547 panel at NANOG:
"If 2547 is the answer, what, again, was the question?")
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