Re: load-balancing

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> >but 'balancing' is exactly what the customer wants.
> 
> I assume that's what *some* (perhaps even most) customers want.  But
> not all customers.  For example, the universities that are connected
> to a research-and-education network (e.g., one of the Internet 2 backbones)
> and a "commodity ISP" have policy reasons (AUPs) for wanting some traffic
> to go one way and some the other; load-balancing is a non-goal for them. 
> (In fact, in that scenario, there's often a big difference in the size of
> the two pipes, and a 50/50 split of traffic is the last thing they want.)

good point.

randy